Japan plays music daily as a disaster warning system test. This system, Bosai Musen, alerts citizens to potential earthquakes ...

TOKYO: The Disaster Management Agency, a new disaster-response organisation, is expected to be launched as early as November.

Residents across the Chugoku region on Monday mourned over 300 people who lost their lives in the incident that hit the area in 2018.

Recent climate change and urbanisation have increased the risk of more severe disasters. In particular, the Indo-Pacific is ...

Japan’s parliament on Monday enacted a law to establish a disaster management agency that will oversee crisis response and ...

Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year, but some people who have upcoming itineraries in Japan may be rethinking their plans. The reason: a Japanese comic book, or manga, that warns of ...

Col. Daniel Mendoza assumed command of 374th Airlift Wing from outgoing commander Col. Richard McElhaney during a ceremony ...

Some believe she foretold the devastating 2011 tsunami in Japan that killed more than 15,000 people and urban legend goes she also predicted the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, another premonition of a major ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged by a massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, is seen from the nearby Ukedo fishing port in Namie town, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 24, 2023.

Over the past few weeks, a once-obscure manga has been making headlines in Japan and overseas. In “The Future I Saw” (Watashi ga Mita Mirai), author Ryo Tatsuki claims that Japan will be hit by a ...

The major airline moved part of its operations from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport to the new facility, which began full-scale ...

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