Tokyo will be prepared for the might of earthquakes and typhoons as the city takes pioneering steps to become "disaster-proof." Japan frequently faces natural disasters with the Great East Japan ...

The sturdy Umaya Bridge across the Sumida River in the Japanese capital has been a symbol of recovery from the 1923 Great ...

A massive earthquake that struck off the Japanese coast Saturday evening does not appear to pose a tsunami threat, but it rattled dwellers in Tokyo and others in the Pacific Rim, where seismic ...

TOKYO – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the east coast of Honshu, Japan, early Sunday morning, rattling nerves across one ...

AKASAKA PRESS CENTER, Tokyo — In a move reflecting their evolving military partnership, the United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise on Friday, the first to bring ...

Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major earthquakes is ever-present. One of the most destructive aspects of seismic ...

TOKYO (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. Several ...

As catastrophic as the 2011 northern Japan quake and tsunami was—killing more than 15,000 people and causing more than $200 billion in economic damages—in a way, the country was lucky. Tokyo, a city ...

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

For more than 300 years, Mount Fuji has quietly loomed over Tokyo, but an eruption could, apparently, strike at any moment. In honor of Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day on August 26, Japanese ...