The chilling forecast is based on an earthquake and tsunami striking Japan's coast west of the capital Tokyo, causing buildings to collapse and fires to break out. The heaviest loss of life and ...

Roving bands of Japanese prowled the ruins of Yokohama and Tokyo, setting up makeshift roadblocks and massacring Koreans across the earthquake zone. According to some estimates, the death toll was ...

Walk through Japan’s energetic ... up Tsukiji’s lucrative flow. Tokyo has been rebuilt twice during the past century—first after the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake and again after the city ...

Saito was in Hiroshima on New Year’s Day but arrived at the infrastructure ministry in Tokyo ... In May 2023, Suzu was hit by an earthquake with a seismic intensity of upper 6. The Japan ...

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923. In a then-and-now series ...

An earthquake ... west of Tokyo, to the southern tip of Kyushu. This trench is where the Philippine Sea tectonic plate is gradually subducted beneath the continental plate on which Japan rests.