A new study has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions of Ontake Volcano in ...

Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto region on Thursday welcomed the first students on a school trip since it was hit by a massive ...

Japan’s ground cracked open in the most powerful earthquake in its history. Towns vanished beneath a towering tsunami. But beneath the chaos, something far more dangerous was brewing—at the Fukushima ...

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes, a new ...

A woman’s research into the word “kizuna” (bonds) led to an extensive survey on how foreign technical intern trainees were ...

One of the most dangerous fault lines that threatens the United States lurks off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, capable ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

After medics took a prominent role in the anti-junta movement that emerged after the coup, the military administration has ...

Renew Risk, a risk modelling and analytics firm, has launched two new earthquake and typhoon models for offshore wind farms ...

Ishikawa Prefecture recorded the highest payouts. Japan’s insurance claims paid for the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, and ...

Nuclear power is a key plank in Japan’s national energy vision, but 14 years after the Fukushima meltdown, the restart ...

TOKYO -- Roughly 60% of Japanese localities in the area where the next megaquake is expected to hit lack one or more critical ...