Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince ...

The sport has recently been dominated by Mongolians and prior to Onosato, six of the previous seven yokozunas have been from ...

Soil liquefaction—the process where saturated soil loses its structure and transforms to a fluid-like state—can have ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that while the U.S. government is accelerating the ...

Despite officials urging calm, airline data reflects the superstitious tendencies of travelers. ForwardKeys data analyzed by Bloomberg showed bookings from Hong Kong dropped 50%, and plunged as much ...

Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese.Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms and he is the first Japanese competitor to reach the top ...

Japan has warned the next "big one" earthquake to hit its Pacific coast could kill nearly 300,000 people, create £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country's economy and generate 12.3 million ...

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No reports of any damage have been reported yet. Tremors of the first earthquake ...

On Friday, March 11, 2011 at 2:46:23 p.m. local time, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, the largest in recorded history. The resulting tsunami that swept the coast resulted in over 10,000 ...

Navigating earthquakes is a tricky part of living in Japan. In the average year, Japanese people are shaken around 1,500 times. While most of these are minor shakes, experts say Japan is due for a ...

Japan issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the southwest of the country, country's Meteorological Agency said Monday. The public warnings to stay away from coastal ...