W hen you look up Ford Motor Company of Japan Limited, you find a lot of past-tense phrasing. This company was Ford's ...

A love letter to cinema and memory, Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress is one of anime’s most powerful and emotionally resonant ...

After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, building codes were strengthened, though it took some time. A major shift came in 1981, when new regulations (Shin-Taishin) required all new constructions ...

Historical documents containing the results of a survey on Korean students in Japan who were affected by the Great Kanto Earthquake are seen at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo's Chiyoda ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan around 4:42 p.m. local time (3:42 a.m. ET) at a depth of about 15.5 miles.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake, measuring a lower 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck western Kanagawa Prefecture at 7:57 p.m. on Friday. There was no threat of a tsunami, and there were no ...

Seismologists can tell that an earthquake is happening, but they can’t observe its more subtle characteristics. “Everything we do now is remote sensing,” Beroza told me.

The Kanto Ora speakers sound excellent, have great connectivity, and are light enough to be tucked away into almost any PC setup. Though it's a bit pricey, and only made more expensive with a host ...

TOKYO -- Tokyo marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake on Friday. The earthquake that hit central Tokyo at 11:58 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1923, registered magnitude 7.9.

Scenes of buildings reduced to rubble were beamed around the world this week following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Ishikawa prefecture on Japan’s western coast on Monday. The full ...

Tokyo was left in ruins following the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Hulton Deutsch/Corbis/Getty Images The piecemeal evolution of building regulations continued through the 20th century.