SINGAPORE: Japanese authorities found an object resembling a driver's seat in a sewage pipe as rescue operations continued around a growing sinkhole in Yashio city, Japanese media reported on Wednesda ...

January 09, 2025 Hikonyan, the popular mascot of the city of Hikone in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, poses with New Year greeting cards addressed to the cat mascot at the city government ...

Japan is made up of 6,852 islands and both volcanic and seismic activity is permanent, with a long history of earthquakes and tsunamis. It is estimated that on land and underwater there are about ...

The Japan Coast Guard on May 4 released underwater images of the interior ... which is based in the Hokkaido port city of Otaru, sources said. Earlier in the week, investigators searched the ...