Authorities said there were no reports of damage to major public facilities or infrastructure including three nearby nuclear power plants.

Many people are trapped inside a Japanese shopping centre after an earthquake, the fire service says One witness reported the ...

The Bank of Japan needs to raise its policy interest rate from the current 1.0 pct to 1.5 pct to fight inflation reflecting higher import prices amid the yen's weakness, economist Paul Sheard has said ...

A powerful earthquake hit southern Japan, seriously damaging a shopping mall where there are reportedly many people trapped ...

After the shaking from the Great East Japan Earthquake stopped, Kazuhiko Haryu and other members of a local volunteer fire corps were moving along the coast, calling on residents to evacuate.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 and depth of 10 kilometers, or just over 6 miles.

Japanese oyster farmer Shigeatsu Hatakeyama restored his bay by planting trees. Healthy forests upstream provided essential ...

Scientists estimates a 70-80% chance of a magnitude-8 to -9 earthquake within the next 30 years around the tectonic plate ...

The Australian TV star is said to be leaving his morning show slot after 20 years, following a headline-grabbing podcast interview with a far-right British extremist.

TOKYO — A powerful earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan during rush hour on Thursday morning, but the country’s meteorological agency said there was no danger of a tsunami and no serious ...

In March 2011, the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. Violent ground shaking lasted for about six minutes and triggered a massive tsunami, ultimately ...

Mud-rich coastlines could face a greater tsunami risk, at least that may have been the case for the 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people and led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...