Japan is set to loosen the rules controlling the country’s tightly guarded rice reserve for the first time as domestic prices ...

With reports swirling of harassed geisha, parking-spot punch-ons and tourist litter killing sacred deer, it’s no wonder some ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

I am writing to address a critical issue in the way disasters are reported by the news media. There is a growing need to ...

Newly discovered footage taken in Shizuoka Prefecture after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake constitutes what is probably among the oldest 35-millimeter records of tsunami damage in Japan. The ...

Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara has teamed up to create a line of merchandise and the official poster for FireAid, a benefit concert which was held on January 30 at Los Angeles’ Intuit ...

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck Japan from its main island, Honshu. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

The stairway, marked with an “evacuation” sign, was installed after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which spawned giant tsunami and claimed thousands of lives. When the man looked down ...

Mark Beaulieu witnessed a lot of grief throughout his career and decided to do something special to honor those who grieve on ...

The state of Maine was hit by a rare 3.8 magnitude earthquake Monday morning, a tremor that could be felt across the New ...