Quake and Tsunami

MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--Residents in this disaster-hit fishing town say rocks have emerged in the sea that resemble the face of the famed Easter Island statues.

A government panel has recommended giving up on short-term earthquake predictions, a cornerstone of current disaster policy, and focusing instead on preparedness.

CRESCENT CITY, California--A barnacle-covered fishing boat that washed ashore this month in Crescent City, California, has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011...

OHIRA, Miyagi Prefecture--Toyota Motor Corp. held an opening ceremony on March 27 for an in-house technical training school in the quake-battered Tohoku region.

A magnitude-9.1 earthquake off the southern coast of Japan could cause 220.3 trillion yen ($2.33 trillion) in damage, or 42 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, a ...

Although a government panel nearly tripled its estimate for maximum economic damage from a Nankai Trough earthquake, the figure remains conservative because members did not...

VANCOUVER--Japan is giving Canada $1 million to assist in the cleanup of debris that has landed on the Pacific coast province of British Columbia from the 2011 tsunami.

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--On the morning of March 10, about 300 local firefighters were pushing rakes as they searched for human remains near the mouth of the Kitakamigawa ...

RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Seventeen-year-old Sara Endo will wear a neck ribbon worn by her older sister in entering a special time of life never reached by her late...

HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--The tsunami that engulfed northeastern Japan two years ago has left some survivors believing they are seeing ghosts.

A Japanese high school student who made a name for herself trying to restore hope to her community after the tsunami disaster two years ago has been invited to United Nations...

In February 2012, documentary filmmaker Kenji Aoike released a film with first-person accounts from elementary schoolchildren in Miyagi Prefecture who survived the Great East...

MORIOKA, Iwate Prefecture--The sole pine tree left standing after the tsunami of 2011 engulfed a local beauty spot apparently was not as old as local tradition claimed.

Sixty percent of the nation's large thermal power plants are situated in areas at risk of a major earthquake, a disturbing finding given Japan's growing reliance on this...

SENDAI--A teacup and saucer that "Born This Way" singer Lady Gaga autographed and auctioned to raise money for victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan...