Japan has turned to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ...

Hawaii's Kilauea, which is one of the world's most active volcanoes, spewed lava in a new eruption on Tuesday (February 11).

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

Japan's long wait of 15 years for a BSL-4 lab to study deadly viruses got longer after public opposition to the setup at ...

Professor Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia. His latest book is Nuclear is Not the Solution. I put some questions to him on ...

Over 100 people were stranded in two hotels in a hot-spring resort area in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, after a snow ...

Over 100 people were stranded in two hotels in a hot-spring resort area in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, after a nearby r ...

I’m a teacher in my 50s. My son, a graduate student who lives alone, began dating a working woman about a year ago. I liked her when he introduced her to me and my husband.

FUKUSHIMA—Forty people have been evacuated by helicopter after avalanches left them stranded for days at a hot spring resort ...