TOKYO -- In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur ...

A crowd of prospective buyers gather as boxes of fully ripe "Tamatama" brand kumquats produced in Miyazaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan are sold in the season's first auction in the city of ...

Friday marks the 30th year since the Jan. 17, 1995, earthquake shook the Osaka-Kobe area, killing more than 4,000 people and destroying 400,000 buildings. The region is located adjacent the Nankai ...

A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in ...

In an innovative step to protect the environment and declining “paper supplies,” Japan launched the world’s first ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around ...

Japan became the first country in the world to sell toilet paper made from used diapers. In the first batch, 30,000 rolls ...

The chance of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has increased to approximately 80 percent, ...

The Japanese government warns of an 80% chance of a magnitude 8-9 earthquake in the Nankai Trough within 30 years. Experts highlight potential catastrophic damage, including massive tsunamis, as ...