TOKYO (AP) — Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted since 1707. But for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, Japanese officials have ...

An AI-generated video released by Japan’s government warns Tokyo’s 20 million residents what to expect if Mount Fuji, the breathtakingly beautiful volcano that looms over their city, ever erupts.

The removed soil and waste have been placed at an interim storage facility. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, triggered ...

Divers have found human remains in a long-abandoned flooded coal mine here, where a ceiling collapse killed 183 miners during ...

TOKYO - Japan's government said the cost of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast could reach $309 billion, making it the world's costliest natural disaster on record. The ...

SDF troops survey the disaster zone in Wajima City. following the Noto Peninsula earthquake, Jan. 6, 2024. Credit: Japan Air Self-Defense Force Subscribe for ads-free reading Since the start of ...

March 11th marks the ten-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, natural disasters which led to a series of explosions and meltdown at the nuclear plant ...

African countries face a future of more extreme weather and intense natural disasters. Japan's experience in the field may ...

But while the Japanese populace as a whole may be well prepared, and multiculturalism (tabunka kyosei) is considered integral to Japan’s disaster preparedness polices, relatively little information is ...

Following Typhoon Hagibis’ trail of destruction, worsening natural disasters are taking a toll on Japan’s economic outlook.