KUMAMOTO: Numerous cracks stretching more than 10km along the Hinagu fault zone, the epicentre of Tuesday's massive earthquake that struck Kumamoto Prefecture, have been confirmed by The Yomiuri ...

NAMIE: The laughter of children enjoying themselves with inflatable rings returned to Ukedo Beach in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday for the first time in about 16 years.

The U.S. Treasury stepped into the currency market on Friday ​to back the battered yen, the Financial Times reported, marking ...

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Japan is reeling under punishing summer temperatures, with highs reaching 36C (97F). Japan's weather agency and the ministry ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck off Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan today. Japan Meteorological Agency said, the quake occurred at a depth of 80 kilometres, and no tsunami advisory was ...

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

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan on Saturday. No tsunami advisory was issued. The tremor came days after a powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, where ...

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. On Friday, three days after the quake, ...

Japan has experienced multiple “supereruptions” throughout its history, and one volcanologist is not sitting around idly ...

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