Weeks after Japan revealed details of a landmark energy plan partly designed to keep up with an expected AI surge, the shock ...

The sinkhole that suddenly opened on a road near Tokyo has captured national attention as attempts to rescue the elderly driver drag on.

On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake struck Japan from its main island, Honshu. The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, one of the ...

Mark Beaulieu tells PEOPLE about setting up a wind phone and how his daughter's video about the sweet gesture has gone viral.

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese ...

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(Mainichi/Sho Ohara)=Click/tap photo for more images ... the only officially recognized Tibetan temple in Japan. One of the most eye-catching features at the hilltop temple, known as a power ...

On 22 May 1960, a 9.5 magnitude earthquake - the largest captured on instruments - triggered a tsunami that killed thousands in Chile, as well as dozens in Hawai'i and Japan as it swept across the ...

Japan Earthquake: A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude ... It said the quake was centred at a depth of 30 kilometres. Tsunami advisories have been issued for waves up to one metre high in ...

NHK said a tsunami, estimated to be as high as 1 meter (3.2 feet ... the southwestern main island, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. The agency initially gave the depth as 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) ...