Some of the honorees on the 2024 Bright Ideas in Travel list are making a point of thinking big: managing a worldwide wildlife census, creating an open-source map with hundreds of thousands of users, ...

Demolition work has begun on a seven-story building in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, that collapsed due to the Noto Peninsula ...

Many have noted inconsistencies in assessments and discrepancies between the results and the actual situations.

Only 14.6% of evacuation centers, hospitals and other "important facilities" in Japan that serve as bases in times of ...

Only about 15 percent of Japan’s 25,000 facilities that are considered vital in times of disaster are connected to earthquake ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

In the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, Japan decommissioned all 54 of its commercial nuclear reactors for safety reassessments and upgrades. Now, 13 out of the 33 viable reactors have been ...

All of Japan's 54 commercial nuclear power plants were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks and upgrades. Onagawa No. 2 is the 13th of the 33 still useable reactors to return to ...

Mugen Estate Co., Ltd. has donated 30 million yen to aid recovery efforts following the devastating torrential rains in the Noto Peninsula. This initiative is part of the company’s commitment to ...

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The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

Nationwide support pouring in for the Noto area ravaged first by an earthquake and then massive rains this year has led to the rediscovery of historical legacies linked to the northcentral Japanese ...