Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo ...

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a large sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Feb. 4, 2025, a week after it opened up, swallowing a truck. Search ...

Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation ...

Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Khemmu love exploring different places together, and their recent trip to Japan is proof. The couple recently took a family trip to Japan, where they visited different places ...

Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.

On a remote volcanic island south of Kyushu, Japan’s ambitious plan to build ... But as construction drags on, questions are mounting about Tokyo’s ability to bolster its defences against ...

To address this challenge, a research team led by Professor Tatsuo Nozaki (Waseda University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), The University of Tokyo ... form near the ...

2023.100091) on June 30. Geological formations were traditionally examined for traces of volcanic ash and other substances spewed from past eruptions of Japan’s highest peak, enabling the latest ...

U.S. forces landed on the volcanic island in February 1945. The offensive lasted 36 days, and about 21,900 Japanese soldiers and 7,000 Americans died. The family members visited several ...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has hit southwestern Japan, the country's Meteorological Agency said Monday.