An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake ...

Tran Van Son, a Vietnamese technical intern working at a factory in Kumamoto Prefecture, had recently become a father befor ...

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

The Kumamoto prefectural government said Saturday it has ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping mall where seven worke ...

Officials said there should be no more people unaccounted for after rescuers searched the shopping centre in Kashima.

Thousands of survivors of a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan have spent Friday in crowded shelters or sleeping in ...

Thousands of survivors of Japan ’s powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake have been forced to sleep in cars and crowded makeshift shelters as an intense heatwave grips the country, compounding misery for ...

Authorities ended the search at Kumamoto's collapsed Aeon Mall after accounting for everyone reported missing. The wider disaster response remains urgent as shortages, heat and damage continue to ...

TOKYO ─ Toyota said on Wednesday it would halt operations at three plants in southern Japan through Friday as it weighed the impact of an earthquake on suppliers and logistics, just hours after ...