As southeast Australia shivers through a cold start to August, southern Japan is sweltering through a mid-summer ...

When a powerful earthquake jolted southern Japan this week, rattling homes and knocking out water and electricity, Tomoko ...

TOKYO ─ Toyota said on Wednesday it would halt operations at three plants in southern Japan through Friday as it weighed the ...

Japan is the most earthquake-prepared country in the world, with building codes arguably more rigorous than those in the U.S.

Authorities have ended a massive search-and-rescue operation at a collapsed shopping mall in southwest Japan following a ...

Japan is reeling under punishing summer temperatures, with highs reaching 36C (97F). Japan's weather agency and the ministry of the environment issued an extreme heat alert for Kumamoto City on Friday ...

With search dogs, rescuers continued looking for survivors across the Kumamoto area, including at the collapsed Aeon Mall in ...

In southern Yatsushiro City, another hard-hit area by the recent earthquake in southern Kumamoto, Kinparo, a 116-year old Japanese inn, was severely damaged.

Kumamoto faces a “double disaster,” as rescuers work in 100 degree heat, and shelters with limited air-conditioning put ...

According to Elias, Montgomery, Murakami and Vargas homered in the same game for the fifth time this year, tying the MLB ...

A powerful earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. A shopping mall, a ...