Japanese engineers yesterday began a difficult operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. About 880 tonnes of hazardous ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company begins trial procedure at No. 2 reactor to retrieve small amount of nuclear fuel debris ...

Japan could face an unprecedented disaster, with predictions warning of up to 300,000 deaths and massive material damage ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan's next 'big one' earthquake could kill almost 300,000 people, do £1.4trillion worth of damage to the country ...

The president of the public broadcaster discusses its last 100 years, driving gains at its commercial arm and more.

Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen ...

Waves up to 10m tall will hit Tokyo and 12 other prefectures along the southeast ... will experience tremors with a rating of ...

The mission came nearly five days after the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that devastated central ... which is affiliated with Japan’s defence ministry, said the delay was partly due to Tokyo’s more ...

Precision equipment manufacturer Shimadzu Corp. said it has created the world’s most accurate time device: a clock that won’t ...

After a 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar on Friday, killing more than 2,800 people, international rescuers rushed into the devastated Southeast Asian country. The most ubiquitous among them have ...

There is a larger risk that a Nankai Trough earthquake, once it occurs, could cause unprecedented damage. It is essential for each member of the public to have a concrete image of what the earthquake ...