Officials said providing such a scenario will help people better understand the potential situation in Tokyo following an earthquake than ... says residents of “tower mansions,” superhigh ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

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 ...

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 ...