In March 2011, an elderly woman shuffles along a road at the edge of Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate Prefecture, a city almost wiped out by a tsunami arriving 30 minutes after the largest earthquake in Japan's ...

The coastline here is as beautiful as it is battered, in a region that has traditionally seen few tourists. But that’s ...

By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...

Fair weather with breezy trades are in place across Guam and the southern CNMI but a shear line is dropping southward through the CNMI, with its axis now near Anatahan, ...

which left a trail of death and damage as far away as Japan, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) stepped in to set up the Pacific Ocean Tsunami Warning System, the first ...

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Along the coast of Japan’s Iwate prefecture, where a tsunami swept away entire communities on March 11, 2011, a single tree remains as a symbol of endurance. Known as the Miracle Pine ...