The ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto has introduced more measures to help foreign travellers should a major natural disaster ...

A disaster-hit city in central Japan will close its last evacuation center on Sunday. About 400 such sites provided emergency shelter to Noto Peninsula residents affected by last year's powerful ...

Completely new station building was installed between the last Monday night train and the first train on Tuesday morning ...

In the worst-case scenario, the disaster could cause damages reaching $1.83 trillion, destroy 2.35 million buildings, and ...

The last remaining evacuation shelters set up in Ishikawa Prefecture last year are scheduled to close on April 13, signaling ...

Japan will send its second medical team to Myanmar on Saturday to meet increasing health care needs in the Southeast Asian ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake that struck Japan in 1923 laid bare the need for a nationwide information system to keep citizens safe. Two years later, stations in three cities—Tokyo, Osaka and ...

Many popular vacation destinations, like California, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Thailand and the Caribbean are in active quake ...

China’s investments and advances in manufacturing are producing a wave of exports that threatens to cause factory closings ...

Japan is bracing for a potential megaquake in the Nankai Trough, with experts warning of catastrophic tsunamis reaching over ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage which could be caused by an impending ...

It’s eaten with almost every meal, but a shortage of rice has sent prices soaring in Japan. The crisis has forced the ...