In a matter of minutes, a crowded Sri Lankan passenger train became the site of unimaginable devastation as the 2004 tsunami ...

Chieko Tsuneoka is a former reporter and researcher for The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo. She reported on a wide range of ...

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 ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault that runs offshore from Northern California to British Columbia, is best known ...

Unfounded rumors of a Japan disaster are going viral, triggering anxiety and keeping visitors away. The country's tourism ...

Last year the government issued its first 'megaquake' advisory. Ever since, those living in the areas it's expected to hit ...

A rumor circulating in Hong Kong that a huge earthquake and tsunami will hit Japan this summer led to such a sharp drop in ...

A three-judge panel at Yokohama District Court found Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Krieger liable in a civil suit and ...

A new study concludes excess deaths increased in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic but does not report any explosion in ...