KANAZAWA--About 90 percent of the people killed in the Jan. 1 earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula died under collapsed homes, data from the Ishikawa prefectural government showed. Specific ...

Japan's parliament on Wednesday enacted a bill to facilitate restoring ports damaged by natural disasters so they can be used as transportation bases for relief supplies.

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.

Japan’s Noto Peninsula was rocked by an earthquake that killed 241 people and injured nearly 1,300 more. But what stunned experts most was that there were no early signs - it took scientists ...

One woman in her 60s in the city of Nanao complained about soaring construction costs as her house is being rebuilt.

Modelling has predicted a “megaquake” could kill almost 300,000 people and wipe $2.8 trillion from Japan’s economy, according ...

Volunteers working on recovery efforts after the heavy rain disaster A resident said, "I was planning to fix it after the earthquake, but now I can't live here because of the flooding." ...

A pillar of the new plan will be strengthening essential services, including water and electricity supplies, affected by recent disasters, such as the Noto Peninsula earthquake on January 1, 2024. The ...

Fundraising activities have begun in Japan in response to the deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar, ...

Monday marks nine years since the first major tremor in a series of earthquakes that struck Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern ...