Many Japanese whose lives were profoundly touched by Pope Francis mourned the pontiff's passing on April 21 at the age of 88.

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Scientists call it the "Great Himalayan Earthquake," and it is expected to ... Unlike India, countries like Japan and Chile are also prone to large quakes but they have learned how to live with ...

Amidst a year already marked by devastating natural disasters, a chilling prediction from Japan's Ryo Tatsuki, dubbed the ...

According to Japan’s Cabinet Office ... The origins of this technology date back to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on Jan 17, 1995, which killed 6,434 people and damaged around 640,000 ...

Events were held around Japan on March 11 to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, as attendees marked the exact time at 2:46 p.m. when the magnitude-9.0 ...

Japan, another seismically active country, poured tens of millions of dollars into a similar program. Plate tectonics suggest that earthquakes ... rippling muscles and great beards.

Add that her great-great-grandparents ... She was 24. Earthquakes would take her around the world—Afghanistan, New Zealand, Japan—and introduce her to the Iceland-born seismologist Egill ...

Background: In Japan, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011, and people in Fukushima were affected by the earthquake, Tsunami, and radiation from the nuclear power plant accident. As a ...

Today in history: On April 18, 1906, the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history struck ... In 1942, in the first World War II attack on the Japanese mainland, 16 U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombers ...