The judicial ruling was that the scale of the tsunami had exceeded predictions and its occurrence could not have been foreseen. Nevertheless, it would be unjustifiable if an accident at a nuclear ...

Japan has officially approved a special defense agreement with the Philippines, making it possible for military drills ...

TOKYO: A law allowing nuclear reactors to operate beyond 60 years took effect in Japan on Friday (Jun 6), as the government ...

A constant fixture of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek’s journey through rural Japan was the whirligig, or as he called them, “seismic scarecrows.” Gardeners he spoke to use these ...

A court in Japan overturned on Friday a $92-billion damages verdict against the former bosses of the operator of the stricken ...

The Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's decision requiring former TEPCO executives to pay compensation for the ...

The recent discoveries of two rare deep-sea dwelling oarfish have sparked fears of a looming natural disaster. The fish were ...

A Japanese court has ruled former executives at the utility managing the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

A rare deep-sea creature known as the oarfish has recently been spotted off the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, sparking ...