Japan is taking the rare steps of turning to imports and releasing part of its emergency stockpile of the grain as the ...

The government had designated 707 cities, towns and villages in Tokyo ... have been earthquake reinforced increased from about 79 percent in 2008 to approximately 90 percent in 2023.

A new study concludes excess deaths increased in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic but does not report any explosion in ...

The death of Pope Francis was mourned across Japan on Monday by those who had met him during his 2019 visit to the country, including survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and 2011 ...

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit Tokyo and eastern parts of Japan on Friday evening, the government said, a day after it issued the first-ever advisory about the risk of a huge earthquake in the ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan ... apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.

Amid recent discussions on difficulties of starting up in India, a Reddit post has grabbed attention for sharing why the author chose Japan instead of his home country to launch his venture.

Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines, and earthquakes are frequent. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on 6 February 2023 and a second powerful tremor that came hours later, destroyed or damaged ...

Thousands of families lost their homes when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's remote Noto peninsula on New Year's Day. Children in the affected areas need food and shelter and basic support ...

During his visit, he also met with survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, one of the worst natural disasters ... Cardinal Isao Kikuchi, the archbishop of Tokyo, shared memories of his ...

Socially conservative Japan welcomed a record 36.8 million tourists last year, thanks in part to the weak yen. Tokyo police did not respond to requests from AFP for information about the increase ...

Fourteen years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, disaster public housing complexes are seeing more residents who are older and people who weren’t hit by the disaster moving in.