TOKYO — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological Agency said Monday, while warning the public to stay away from coastal ...

TOKYO — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country’s Meteorological Agency said Monday, while warning the public to stay away from coastal ...

The Shin-Marunouchi Building, a 38-story tower also near Tokyo Station, stands at the site where a makeshift medical center was set up to treat survivors of the Great Kanto Earthquake. In the 1923 ...

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923. In a then-and-now series ...

THE last Seismometric Report issued by the Earthquake Research Institute completes the list of earthquakes felt in Tokyo in 1936. In addition to the central station, there are eleven others at ...

In 2011, the deadliest quake and subsequent tsunami in recent Japanese history struck northwest of the capital Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 people. The 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake spiraled ...

There is a 70 percent chance that a major earthquake will hit densely populated central Tokyo in the next 30 years. Millions of lives could be affected by collapsed buildings, power outages and ...

The probability of a “megaquake” happening in Japan within the next 30 years has risen to over 80 per cent, the government’s earthquake ... at the University of Tokyo, said during a press ...

Razed a century ago by an earthquake and fire and then again ... a vision for projects that are transforming key parts of downtown Tokyo with tower redevelopments packed with fashionable offices ...