Communities in Japan's northern and eastern areas are preparing for a possible mega quake after a powerful tremor earlier ...

Maki Takubo, the former mayor of this central Japan city who was toppled by the municipal assembly over academic fraud ...

The city of Kusatsu in the western Japan prefecture of Shiga, often confused for the famous "onsen" hot spring town in eastern Japan sharing the same name, is using the mix-up as a public relations ...

A few days have passed since the earthquake that registered an upper 6 on the Japanese seismic scale in Aomori ...

NAGOYA, Japan—The tourists who crowd the bullet trains from Tokyo tend not to disembark at Nagoya as they speed along the so-called Golden Route linking the Japanese capital with Kyoto and Osaka.

A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a ...

Japan is on alert for a further huge earthquake which could bring tsunami waves of up to three metres high in the coming week ...

The 7.6-magnitude quake struck in waters off Aomori Prefecture on Japan’s main island, Honshu. It triggered a tsunami warning ...

A 7.6-magnitude Japan earthquake injured 23, prompted evacuations, and triggered tsunami warnings before they were lifted.

The quake struck the country's north just days after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same region injured 50 people.

Authorities assessed the damage from Monday's 7.5-magnitude earthquake, amid warnings of aftershocks and potentially larger ...

In the latest report prepared by a Japanese government earthquake task force, it was estimated that up to 298,000 people ...