A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, residents’ fears about tsunamis, earthquakes and evacuation plans remain ...

What began as a makeshift carpentry space amid tsunami debris has grown into an internationally recognized furniture brand, as residents of Ishinomaki turned rebuilding into a shared act of ...

Japan ’s Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) will delay the restart of its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which was ...

When Ichiro Kawachi established a cohort study in Iwanuma, Japan, in 2010, he thought he would be researching the predictors ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...

The epicenter of the first earthquake was in eastern Shimane prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

The 2025 tsunami is shattering old models, thanks to observations from space. On July 29, 2025, the world’s sixth biggest ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Japan's Chugoku region, epicentered in Shimane prefecture, with no tsunami threat.

A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Chugoku region, registering upper 5 on seismic intensity scale; no tsunami ...

An employee at Japan's nuclear safety agency lost his work phone containing sensitive information during a personal trip to ...