Kansai International Airport is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest ...

This tool gives coastal communities a science-based way to assess their disaster readiness. Scientists make fascinating discovery after studying earthquakes and tsunamis: 'Critical insights' first ...

With the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megaquake and Tokyo inland earthquake, immediate countermeasures are crucial. In the Great Hanshin Earthquake on Jan. 17, 1995, around 250,000 homes ...

SHIMUKAPPU, Hokkaido—A JR express train was filled to 60-percent capacity when it left Sapporo Station for Shimukappu in the central part of Hokkaido in December.