Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the ... Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaster came to be called—I was transferred ...

Markets are looking for stabilization after yesterday's tsunami. Attention is also turning to sectors other than tech. The dollar is recovering in the wake of Trump's new threats on duties. At Piazza ...

Despite its population of nearly 127 million, Japan had pulled in just 4 million tourists in 2000. Authorities are battling overtourism in Japan. While the pandemic stunted this growth for two ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Children in Fukushima Prefecture have developed more psychological problems than their counterparts in the two other prefectures devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 13 years ago.

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

I JUST landed back on home soil after more than a month on the other side of the world. I went on a research trip with my university, focused ...

South Korea’s authorities investigating last month’s Jeju Air plane crash have submitted a preliminary accident report to the ...

A Melbourne woman undergoing chemotherapy has taken her local bowls club to a legal tribunal, claiming she was dropped to the lowest league of her local competition because she has cancer. The ...

The TA will establish the Asia and the Pacific Just Transition Social and Human Impact Forum (JT ... Emission reduction activities across the region occur in different and often ad-hoc ways. while ...

Important features of the tropical easterlies include the southeast trade winds, monsoon lows and sometimes tropical cyclones (known as hurricanes in the Americas and typhoons in Asia ... pressure ...