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

Ryunosuke Animal Hospital in downtown Kumamoto, which was jolted by a powerful earthquake this week, has converted a space into temporary housing for evacuees, with separate rooms for owners of cats ...

TOKYO — Japanese authorities ended a five-day search-and-rescue operation at a collapsed shopping mall on Saturday after a powerful earthquake that struck southwestern Japan earlier this week killed ...

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 ...

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

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

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