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

The major earthquake that jolted Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, drew attention to the area’s severe issue of an aging and shrinking population, but efforts to revive the Anamizu ...

Hundreds of thousands of social media posts quickly spread fake news that the New Year’s Day earthquake that devastated the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture was artificially created ...

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

Countries around the world have experienced an uptick in natural disasters and home insurance costs, but each country has ...

Japan has spent decades making its buildings more resilient to earthquakes. Similar changes could be difficult for the US to ...

A Kyodo News survey showed Sunday that 50.1 percent of respondents gave high marks to the first in-person summit between ...

Several emergency temporary housing structures have now been completed on the playground of the municipal Monzen Higashi ...

The Environment Ministry plans to release crested ibises in the quake-hit Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture around early ...