A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Japan’s top court has found two former company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of dozens of elderly residents ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Japan's biggest airline ANA Holdings announced ... with nine options for small and medium-size aircraft. This mega-order is done "in anticipation of future growth in passenger ...

Japan's biggest airline ANA Holdings announced Tuesday it will purchase 77 new aircraft from Boeing, Airbus and Embraer to replenish its fleet in order to serve growing passenger demand ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 times. While most of these are minor shakes, experts say Japan is due for a ...

The tsunami is usually the most dangerous part. Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee has raised the estimated probability of a Nankai Trough mega-earthquake occurring within the next 30 years.

The land-based setting makes the Himalayan earthquake extremely dangerous, with urban infrastructure being more vulnerable to violent shaking in the event of a mega-quake.