Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba was considering declaring the country’s biggest wildfire in decades a “severe disaster ...

A Japanese artist has been drawing illustrations featuring heart shapes every morning since shortly after the 2011 Great East ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...

NAGANO: Researchers at Shinshu University and another institution have developed an odour-detecting drone that uses antennae ...

Japan faces the constant risk of natural calamities striking anywhere at any time. To save as many lives as possible, it is ...

Scientists warn seismic energy accumulating under the Chishima Trench off Hokkaido has the potential to trigger a magnitude-8 ...

Professor SAKURAI Aiko of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies has a unique background, pursuing a career ...

Local governments around Japan are using digital signboards, long an instrument for corporate advertising, to convey crucial information during disasters in multiple languages. They are currently ...