On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in ...

The Chinese Embassy in Japan has warned its citizens residing in the country to think twice about buying real estate in Japan ...

Peter Landers is The Wall Street Journal's Asia business, finance and economics editor, based in Singapore. He previously ...

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Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

A View of debris and mud covered at Tsunami hit Destroyed fishing village in Kojirahama on March 25, 2011, Japan. On 11 March 2011, an earthquake hit Japan with a magnitude of 9.0, the biggest in ...

Hatsushima is a small, unstaffed station on Japan’s Kisei Line which was built in 1938 and was electrified only in 1978.

Japanese manufacturers are accelerating efforts to mitigate the economic impact of a massive earthquake forecast to occur in the Nankai Trough off the country's Pacific coast. Last week ...

Rice is everywhere in the diet of Japan – there are at least six ways in Japanese ... In recent years, a combination of bad weather, heatwaves and the threats of typhoons and earthquakes have sparked ...