To this day, family gatherings at the memorial site happen frequently as a way to keep his memory alive at a place he loved so dearly.

To understand why the Tohoku earthquake was so unusually powerful – and why it produced such a catastrophic tsunami – an ...

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world ...

Seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they ...

At the train station we’re the only passengers who get off. At our accommodation, we’re the first foreigners our host has seen in a long time.

A white, weathered store stands quietly in a deserted area of Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture, an area evacuated after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Inside the dilapidated building, ...

TOKYO – A strong earthquake hit the Chugoku region, registering a upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Sakai-Minato, Hino and Kofu, Tottori Prefecture, and Matsue and Yasugi, ...

TOKYO - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, Jan. 6, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks, the Japan Meteorological Agency said ...

A series of earthquakes, with a maximum magnitude of 6.2, struck western Japan on Tuesday, January 6, with the epicenters located in eastern Shimane Prefecture. Authorities state there is no threat of ...