Japan is a global leader in earthquake-resistant architecture, where skyscrapers don’t just reach for the sky—they are engineered to withstand powerful tremors. In this video, explore the incredible ...

Unfounded online rumours warning that a huge earthquake will soon strike Japan are taking a toll on travel firms and airlines who report less demand from worried Hong Kongers.

Jakarta, May 3 (BNA): A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi region on Saturday, according to the Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. The agency stated that ...

Princess Aiko delivered an address at the opening ceremony of the 23rd meeting of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) in Tokyo on Saturday. It was the first time the ...

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake — and shaking and tsunamis wouldn’t be the only threats from such an event, according to new research. Coastal land would also sink nearly seven ...

The book received little mainstream attention until sometime after the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011. The story of "Watashi ga Mita Mirai" itself doesn’t ...

The Chinese embassy in Tokyo appears to have inadvertently exacerbated concerns about the possibility of a major earthquake occurring in Japan this summer – drawing attention to previous rumours ...

“This is honestly where I think the subsidence could have bigger impacts than it has during other recent large earthquakes around the world.” Subduction zones, which can also be found off the coasts ...

(Mainichi/Kenjiro Sato) HIROSHIMA -- "The people have the power," U.S. punk rock legend Patti Smith called out to a crowd of some 250 people in Hiroshima, the western Japan city where the first ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami waves, some of them 40 feet high.

(April 25, 2025) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the Japanese embassy in Thailand have joined forces to strengthen disaster management efforts and exchange experiences on ...