TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the real-life ...

Tropical Storm Ampil is expected to intensify into a typhoon as it nears eastern Japan on Friday, disrupting public transit during the Bon holiday — one of the country’s busiest travel periods. The ...

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The Japan Meteorological Agency called for vigilance across the Kanto region as the ninth typhoon of the season looked set to pound the Izu island chain south of Tokyo as early as Aug. 1. It warned of ...

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The rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin region, Hokuriku region and southern Tohoku region, the Meteorological Agency announced Friday. This leaves the northern Tohoku region as the ...

This September marks the 100 anniversary of the 1923 Kanto earthquake disaster, which killed more than 100,000 people and left millions homeless in Greater Tokyo. It’s the only natural disaster to ...

The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sagamihara area, southwest of Tokyo, on September 1, 1923, just before noon, triggered a widespread inferno, causing most of the victims to perish in the ...

TOKYO — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida took part in a televised disaster drill Friday based on a hypothetical earthquake in the Tokyo region as Japan marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 Great ...