China has warned there is “no market” for Japanese seafood exports, the latest veiled threat from Beijing as its diplomatic spat with Tokyo escalates over recent comments by Japan’s leader on ...

Is the aim of this system to prepare for situations in which the functions of the central government’s ministries and agencies and other entities are lost due to large-scale disasters? Or is the ...

But the disaster did not end with water. The waves crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, causing reactor meltdowns, ...

Many developed nations are facing the simultaneous aging of infrastructure built during periods of rapid economic growth. Japan has reached a critical turning point where numerous buildings and ...

Evacuation drills to transport residents to safety by sea and air due to a nuclear plant accident have been canceled more ...

Skip the usual Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto haunts and head instead to Chiba Prefecture for a trip to Japan that's off the beaten ...

Conventional borehole backfilling suffers from various technical limitations, making infrastructure demolition and renewal difficult. In an innovative development, researchers from Shibaura Institute ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western ...

A diplomatic firestorm has erupted across Asia. China has slammed Japan with its harshest travel freeze in years, airlines ...

Concrete 3D printing is revolutionizing the building industry by cutting costs and construction time. However, most current ...

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...

A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, shaking buildings, halting ...