From rental families to grief phone booths, Japanese people have used surprising strategies to combat loneliness.

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

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

Japanese panda fans have seen their beloved pandas return to China over the past decades, but bidding farewell to beloved ...

The chances of getting a replacement are poor, with Tokyo's relations with Beijing at their lowest point in years amid ...

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

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.

In one of the countries with the highest life expectancy in the world, 13% of inmates are elderly, many of whom commit petty crimes to secure shelter and food behind bars ...

By Leika Kihara and Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Any Japanese intervention to prop up the yen will have limited ...

Despite public opposition and the memory of the Fukushima disaster, Japan's government has approved a new energy plan aiming ...