A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but less than half of the affected municipalities are prepared, an Asahi ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around 80 percent,” according to the government’s Earthquake Research ...

File photo taken in July 1993 shows the Aonae district in the southern part of Okushiri Island burning after an earthquake ...

When trying to improve, refine, and seek more efficiency in disaster management measures, predicting the extent of disaster ...

This is the fifth installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and ...

The affected areas, hit by an unprecedented disaster, are moving forward step by step, but they are facing difficult ...

Japan faces the constant risk of natural calamities striking anywhere at any time. To save as many lives as possible, it is ...

TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region on Tuesday to pray for the souls of the ...

This file photo taken in July 1993 shows the Aonae district in the southern part of Okushiri Island burning after an earthquake off the southwest coast of Hokkaido. (Kyodo) SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan ...

Councillor Alex Wagner at the Pig Trough footpath In December last year Severn Trent announced £470 million of investment for Shropshire. One step in the start of this wider investment programme ...

However, I find them useful for bringing early interest to the various troughs that we have dotted around the garden. In fact, overhauling the troughs is a spring task that I really enjoy.