The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday (Jan 17) marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 ...

The probability of a “megaquake” in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said, with a 75-82% chance of it happening.

The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

Japan is advancing its disaster preparedness with a new satellite-based programme designed to assess structural damage within ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

The Japanese archipelago is constantly threatened by major earthquakes. It is important to make thorough preparations without ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

Municipalities with older populations tend to have lower rates of earthquake-resistant housing, an Asahi Shimbun analysis ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

Hyogo Prefecture is also calling on the central government to pick Kansai as the base of a new disaster relief agency ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...