This map shows how parts of Japan could be impacted by a tsunami ... 10 meters could also hit a wide area along the Pacific coast from the Kanto region to the Kyushu region.

Cartographer Ino Tadataka (1745-1818) was 55 years old when he set out on his first surveying trip in 1800 to chart the coast of Hokkaido ... of his completed map of Japan. Nevertheless, I ...

their imperial yellow shimmer filled the windows as my friend and I rattled along this once-moribund coastline. On 11 March 2011, communities along the north-eastern seaboard of Japan's biggest ...

TOKYO — Japan issued its first warning Thursday about the possibility of a long-feared "megaquake" after a powerful 7.1-magnitude temblor struck off its southern coast, sparking a tsunami ...

The map can be viewed here ... have arrived on the northern coast of central Japan, according to reports. Waves as high as 1.2m (4ft) hit Wajima port in Ishikawa prefecture at 16:21 local time ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake registered magnitude 7.1 and was centered in waters off the eastern coast of Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu at a depth of about 19 miles.

The earthquake occurred off the coast of Torishima Island, which is uninhabited, at 8:14 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The advisory was lifted at 11 a.m. By ...