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

The ancient Japanese ... of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan. “Kyoto City has learned from the 2011 earthquake, which caused more than 5 million people in the Tokyo ...

TOKYO -- Suicides among elementary, junior high and high school students in Japan ... Japan Earthquake and tsunami and the ensuing nuclear disaster for the first time. Between 2011 and 2023 ...

A RECENT farmers’ protest in central Tokyo created an unusual ... security and how to raise Japan’s low food self-sufficiency rate, which stood at just 38% in 2023, far below Germany’s ...

The commitment to security of Tokyo Disneyland was most exemplified during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Tsunezumi, as an official in charge of disaster response, arranged for staff to ...

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.

Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co take journalists to an area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the earthquake-triggered tsunami ... floors of two buildings at the site.

France 24 reports that record numbers of visitors are partly to blame for Japan's current rice shortage, along with a brutal heat wave in 2023 that damaged crops and some panic buying after ...

Experts say extreme heat in 2023 damaged the harvest. What made matters worse was panic buying over warnings of a devastating earthquake ... traditional Japanese rice wine, at Ishikawa Shuzou, a ...

Japan plans to invest over 20 trillion ... pipes created a sinkhole in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, swallowing a truck and its driver earlier this year. After a powerful earthquake that ...

Even today, it remains a bustling port – the second busiest in Japan and in the top fifty largest seaports in the world. Yokohama is a destination that is included in the JR Rail Pass, the JR Tokyo ...