TOKYO >> More than 20,000 communities in Japan could be cut off from the rest of the country by a major disaster, according to research by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

ASX uranium stocks are back in focus as global economies embrace nuclear power for clean, reliable and affordable energy.

Scientists have documented elephants breaking chains to flee inland and hibernating snakes emerging in winter before major earthquakes, yet most of us dismiss our pets' strange behavior as mere quirks ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft layer of slippery clay, according to a new study. The layer is only around ...

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

A minor, 2.4-magnitude earthquake struck in New Jersey on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

Debris and mud cover a city in Japan flattened by a massive tsunami in March 2011, caused by the energy released by a ...

One of the surviving reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was loaded with fuel last summer and recently turned back on, ...

Japan may have its first woman Prime Minister, but in the business community, breaking down decades of entrenched resistance ...

The Fukushima nuclear accident of March 2011 was the direct result of an underwater earthquake off the coast of Japan that sent a tsunami surging into the power plant on the coast of the town of Ōkuma ...

Any Japanese government intervention to support the yen is unlikely to have a lasting impact unless it is backed by strong fiscal discipline and credible monetary policy, according to former Finance ...

TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Any Japanese intervention to prop up ‌the ​yen will have limited effect in sustainably halting the ...