A Japanese court has rejected the request of thousands ... plaintiffs totaling around 3,000 claimed a catastrophic volcanic eruption or an earthquake could hit the No. 1-2 units at Kyushu Electric ...

As reasons for the about-face, the government cited the need to ensure stable electricity supplies and secure carbon-free ...

The Nankai Trough stretches from Shizuoka Prefecture to off the coast of Kyushu ... after the magnitude-7.6 earthquake “has never been observed before in Japan.” (This article was written ...

During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the tsunami reached shore ... Takashi Sugiyama, an associate professor of disaster psychology at Kyushu University, warns that many municipalities lack ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 ... Prefecture and upper 5 in parts of Tokyo to a barely perceptible 1 in Kyushu. There have been only five occasions when a level 7 was recorded ...

During restoration work following the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake ... reopened to the public since April 2022. (Japanese original by Minoru Kanazawa, Kyushu Photo and Video Department) The Japanese ...

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This is the fifth installment of a series that follows the waves of change taking place in Kyushu and nearby Yamaguchi and ...

Over 700 letters from Japanese students expressing appreciation for U.S. assistance for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are found to have been kept in the United States. A team of researchers from ...

North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026, saying such attack capability will "bring about constant escalation of tension" in Northeast Asia, ...

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 ...