The earthquake and resulting tsunami decimated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant along the coast. The massive ecological ...

Earthquakes can’t be predicted. But a manga artist’s dream of a July 5 'megaquake' has spooked some residents and travelers.

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

Japan was struck by a new 6.9-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, hitting a similar area of the Pacific coast to Monday night’s powerful 7.5-magnitude tremor. The new quake off Aomori prefecture ...

That expedition used Japan's ultra-advanced drilling ship Chikyū, and marked the first time scientists had ever drilled directly into the fault zone of a recent megathrust earthquake. They drilled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A house lies in the sea off a village near the Onagawa nuclear power plant on March 20, 2011, nine days after the deadly ...

Misawa Air Base, a shared U.S. and Japanese fighter base in northeastern Japan, was spared serious damage from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck the area this week. “Misawa Air Base sustained ...

The Japanese people have just given Sanae Takaichi a super-majority in the parliament. It signals a period of great change ...