The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Toyo in the western Japan prefecture of ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

A popular sunfish in Japan lost its appetite and banged on the side of its tank after the aquarium it lived in closed for ...

The "Orange Route," a U.S. military training flight path stretching over the mountainous regions of Wakayama, Tokushima, ...

Hidakawashi Co. President Hiroyoshi Chinzei holds up Japanese paper with a thickness of just 0.02 millimeters in Hidaka, Kochi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Masatoshi Maekawa) HIDAKA, Kochi -- In this ...

A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey put ...

A nearly 7.0 earthquake rocked southern Japan on Monday with no reports of damage to the two nuclear power plants in the area.

The quake struck shortly after 9:19 p.m. local time (7:19 a.m. ET), the agency said, triggering an advisory for Miyazaki prefecture, in the island of Kyushu, as well as Japan’s southern Kochi ...

INO, Kochi Prefecture--Stone skipping may be considered ... captivates everyone and is enjoyed by many players also outside Japan,” said Takahiro Shono, president of Niyodogawa Otakara Tanteidan ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Japan, followed by tsunami advisories. Residents in the coastal city of Kochi were told to ...

According to Japanese government authorities, the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Hyuganada Sea and a tsunami warning was issued in Miyazaki and Kochi provinces.