RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Tokyo, the capital city of Japan and a sought-after tourist destination, emerged as the big winner of the inaugural TOURISE Awards with three major honors, namely Best ...

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...

TOKYO – Tsunami waves up to 20-centimeter high reached the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Sunday ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency reports a powerful earthquake has occurred off the northern Japanese coast. The earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7, struck off the coast of the ...

Digital tools launched in a Japanese smart city that can send disaster alerts to safeguard residents are part of an optional ...

At least 27 people were killed and hundreds of others wounded after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan at ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...

TOKYO – On March 28, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing a horizontal shift along a fault line that extended over 400 kilometers from north to south. Said to be the “largest in ...

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — A Kansas man was on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan when one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded put the area under a tsunami warning. Bobby Hise said he woke up on ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South ...