The mayor of Nagasaki said the city will invite representatives of ‘all countries’ and regions to this year's atomic bombing ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure ...

After medics took a prominent role in the anti-junta movement that emerged after the coup, the military administration has ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Salt production using the "agehama" method, which had been practiced in the northern Noto Peninsula's ...

Japan has revised a law to more efficiently use its official development assistance to respond to massive global development ...

In the days following the quake, the 20-year-old Chiura Obata, who had only been in the country for three years, grabbed his ...

Nuclear power is a key plank in Japan’s national energy vision, but 14 years after the Fukushima meltdown, the restart ...

For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can ...

People in a Japanese city have hoisted hundreds of carp-patterned streamers for the first time since the area suffered damage ...

Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five ...

It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series ...