The Fire and Disaster Management Agency issued an emergency alert at the time of the quake, predicting strong shaking in the ...

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

The oyster fishing season is underway in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Shipments of raw oysters have begun in the ...

The quake, with an estimated magnitude of 5.8, measured a lower 5, the fifth-highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity ...

A call informed the family that some human remains, a small jawbone with teeth had been discovered by a volunteer cleaning ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...

A villager on the country’s northeastern coast repurposed rubble from the 2011 natural disaster to create Shiome, a community space and hiker hostel that’s still evolving 15 years later.

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered huge tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean. Some as high as four metres were observed after the 8.8-magnitude tremor struck off the city ...

Two earthquakes shook Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Saturday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The ...