TOKYO -- In the three decades since a massive earthquake devastated the city of Kobe in 1995, shelters will be unequipped to accommodate at least 530,000 evacuees if a similar disaster were to occur ...

Friday marks the 30th year since the Jan. 17, 1995, earthquake shook the Osaka-Kobe area, killing more than 4,000 people and destroying 400,000 buildings. The region is located adjacent the Nankai ...

Japan became the first country in the world to sell toilet paper made from used diapers. In the first batch, 30,000 rolls ...

A crowd of prospective buyers gather as boxes of fully ripe "Tamatama" brand kumquats produced in Miyazaki Prefecture in southwestern Japan are sold in the season's first auction in the city of ...

The chance of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has increased to approximately 80 percent, ...

The probability of a magnitude-8 or -9 megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has risen to “around ...

A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in ...