A three-day evacuation exercise involving nearly 5,000 residents began on Feb. 14 close to a nuclear power plant here.

Since many of the damaged houses are traditional, picturesque buildings, concerns are rising that their demolition could ...

“Earthquake 7.1 magnitude shakes China, dozens injured and dead reported.” The video was filmed on, opens new tab National Route 249, Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Choujukai did not ...

Children in Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture, who are still reeling under the trauma of this year’s fatal earthquake, have been asked to hug family members as part of their school homework.

Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises next year in central Japan's earthquake-hit Noto region to ...

A magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck Ishikawa Prefecture in central Japan on Monday. The country's meteorological agency has downgraded to advisories all tsunami warnings issued along the Sea of Japan.

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

(Mainichi/Shinichi Okuda) NANAO, Ishikawa -- In earthquake-hit areas of central Japan's Noto Peninsula, a man from Iwate Prefecture has been serving warm coffee to people residing in shelters and ...

Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...

Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture, applying another layer ... his remote community after a devastating New Year's Day ...