A senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker resigned Monday as head of the House of Councillors' powerful Budget ...

Criticized from all sides, the chair of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Upper House Budget Committee decided to resign from the post for a remark that angered survivors of the deadly Noto ...

Japan’s Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture have been rattled by more than 2,000 earthquakes since June 21, marking the ...

This tool gives coastal communities a science-based way to assess their disaster readiness. Scientists make fascinating discovery after studying earthquakes and tsunamis: 'Critical insights' first ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...