From high-end boutiques to housing in disaster zones with beer-crate foundations, the Japanese architect creates with things people throw away. What will his distillery in whisky’s holy land look like ...

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

Japan has restarted a reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant after a 14-year shutdown, marking a pivotal shift back toward ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has resumed power generation and transmission to the grid from its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata prefecture, central Japan.

Why did the 2011 earthquake in Japan cause such a massive tsunami? This disaster, one of the deadliest in modern history, had ...

Fifteen years ago, on March 11, 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, a disaster that still impacts the world today.

Radioactive pig-boar hybrids are thriving in Fukushima after nuclear disaster – now scientists know why - Domestic pig genes ...

Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

Japan's former currency chief says the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is "behind the curve" on taking policy action, adding that higher interest rates would help address inflation and stabilise markets.

The first of a three-part series about the former prime minister’s path to power. Plus, the Fukushima catastrophe 15 years on. Here’s what to watch this evening ...

In the ghost towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, a ...