"The good news about earthquake swarms is they don’t appear to lead to bigger quakes. Not a single one has ever been associated with a major earthquake." ...

In a stunning political upset, Chisato Morishita, a former talent and member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has solidified her place in Japan's political landscape by winning the Miyagi 4th ...

Japan has gone to the polls in a Lower House election. Here's who won and lost in 11 key constituencies. Our site uses ...

In one of the countries with the highest life expectancy in the world, 13% of inmates are elderly, many of whom commit petty crimes to secure shelter and food behind bars ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) crowdsourcing platform Did You Feel It? (DYFI) rapidly transforms people's earthquake ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

The utility that operates the Fukushima plant that melted down in 2011 restarted a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, which it also operates in north-central Japan ...

Five years after the coup, inflation has risen nearly 10 times, from 2.3 percent in the 2020–21 fiscal year to 22 percent in ...

In a shuttered school north of Tokyo, office workers assemble cardboard houses in minutes, part of a travel agency's effort to help people better prepare for life in evacuation shelters. A Tokyo-based ...

She made headlines around the world when appointed to manage Clermont Foot in France but now she is leading the way in a ...

As tourism surges, a ski town in Nagano Prefecture weighs economic revival against rising costs, crowds and cultural clashes.

The Chinese government on January 26 urged its citizens to refrain from traveling to Japan ahead of the Chinese New ...