Shortly before the outbreak of World War 2, the Japanese were already preparing to conquer the Pacific. However, the United ...

Nearly half of municipalities across Japan say evacuation shelters they are preparing do not meet government guidelines on ...

In the years leading up to World War II, Japan secretly constructed the Yamato-class battleship Musashi, a colossal vessel built to dominate the Pacific and outgun any American rival. Considered ...

COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | In 2013, a groundbreaking case made news in Japan when a court ordered a school to pay $1.8 ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from Northern California to Vancouver Island, could trigger a catastrophic ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Ibaraki Prefecture northeast of Tokyo early Thursday morning, ...

A new study from Virginia Tech, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates a 15% chance of a ...

There are more than 1,000 tsunami shelters across Taiwan, Deputy Minister of the Interior Wu Tang-an (吳堂安) said yesterday, as ...

But Hong Kongers took it particularly seriously. Several prominent feng-shui masters, experts in ancient Chinese geomancy, ...

Despite popular belief that the world's deepest ocean trench shields Guam from tsunamis, the Mariana Trench actually poses ...

Paper lanterns painted by children are being used to light up a cemetery in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the 2011 ...

India’s $7.38 bn seafood sector reels as US doubles tariffs to 50%, threatening Rs 24,000 cr in exports. Shrimp farmers, ...