The powerful earthquake that hit central Japan on New Year's Day killed at ... in nine prefectures on the western coast of main island Honshu to evacuate. They were spending the night in sports ...

Powerful Typhoon No. 7 is projected to slam into the main island of Honshu or Shikoku around Aug. 15, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is now gearing up to issue heavy rainfall warnings.

Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and the government sees about an 80 per cent chance of a magnitude 8 to 9 earthquake along a tremulous seabed zone known as the Nankai ...

A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, at 2.46pm, triggering a towering tsunami that reached land within half an hour. The tsunami sent ...

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - Japan's economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in the event of a long-anticipated megaquake off its Pacific coast, which could trigger devastating tsunamis, the ...

A "megaquake" and subsequent tsunami could cause as many as 298,000 deaths in Japan and damage costing ... were drawn up after the devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear ...

As Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of the country’s northeast in 2011, experts have warned that the seismic conditions in an underwater ...

(Kyodo) SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan on Tuesday marked 14 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami rocked the country's northeast, triggering a nuclear crisis, with residents in one of the ...