Japan's government and experts have issued a warning about the increasing likelihood of a mega-earthquake striking the nation ...

The Nankai Trough, where the Philippine Sea Plate is slipping under the Eurasia Plate at the bottom of the sea off the ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has called for continued caution over potential tremors and tsunamis despite a gradual ...

Toyota Motor Corp is considering shifting some production at its central Japan home ground to other areas in a realignment ...

Tremors in the Nankai Trough, south of Kobe, have increased recently as seismologists flag higher risks of a major quake in ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

The probability of a “megaquake” in Japan in the next 30 years has marginally increased, a government panel said, with a 75-82% chance of it happening.

The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

Japan is advancing its disaster preparedness with a new satellite-based programme designed to assess structural damage within ...

The Japanese archipelago is constantly threatened by major earthquakes. It is important to make thorough preparations without ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...