Scientists know that natural disasters have negative health effects on survivors, but long-term observations are lacking. To ...

Japan says it will increase its reliance on nuclear energy in a major policy shift as it seeks to meet growing demand from ...

Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

The earthquake and tsunami that devastated much of eastern Japan may have taken place only ... that devastated the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. “I wanted to share this memory of this big ...

A professor at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, and director of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Kobe University Hospital, KOTANI ...

Okinawa has many U.S. military installations, making it a key strategic location for U.S. forces ... we can look at past crises—like the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Fukushima disaster—to get an idea of ...

Starbucks Coffee Japan will introduce a "location-based pricing" system from Feb 15, with increased prices depending on the location of the store. Of the 1,991 stores nationwide (as of the end of last ...

Charades, the thriving sales company behind the Oscar-nominated “Flow” and “Memoir of a Snail,” has boarded “A New Dawn,” the ...