Great East Japan Earthquake

It wasn't so long ago that Akihiro Onishi, the third-generation owner of company that makes hand-crafted candles, was on the verge of calling it a day.

The decisive victory in the Dec. 16 Lower House election for the Liberal Democratic Party places its leader, Shinzo Abe, 58, on the road back to becoming prime minister, five...

KOBE—Nighttime sightseers are admiring this city's winter illuminations this year, an annual tradition dating from 1995, the year Kobe was recovering from a devastating...

The magnitude-7.3 earthquake and tsunami warning on Dec. 7 were a chilling echo of the events of March 2011, but lessons learned back then resulted in a more efficient...

The magnitude-7.3 temblor that rocked northeastern Japan on Dec. 7 is now considered an aftershock of last year's Great East Japan Earthquake--and it may not be the last.

RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--The root system of a lone pine tree that withstood last year's earthquake and tsunami will also be treated and preserved along with the trunk.

Internet surfers can now take a virtual tour of the interiors of schools, city halls and other buildings in the Tohoku region that were damaged by the Great East Japan...

Construction company Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co. has developed a faster and cheaper method to build steel-frame factories and warehouses that uses more pre-assembled ...

Japan should be prepared for the possibility of a magnitude-10 earthquake, although the chances of a temblor that size are slim, a seismologist said.

AIZUWAKAMATSU and KITAKATA, Fukushima Prefecture--Many regions in Japan have their own distinctive arts and crafts that are rooted in local history and natural resources.

SUKAGAWA, Fukushima Prefecture--As the night sky erupted in a sea of flames, festival-goers at one of Japan’s three major fire festivals here on Nov. 10 mourned the victims...

IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture—Post-disaster restoration work is complete at the Shiramizu Amidado hall, which is now lit up at night.

Thousands of pictures taken a year after Japan's devastating quake and tsunami have gone online, as a local university tries to preserve memories of the disaster—and show the ...

A group of Japanese companies plans to lay a 1,400-kilometer pipeline to import natural gas from Russia’s Sakhalin island, which could reduce procurement costs substantially...

IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Business was brisk Nov. 2 as customers snapped up cyclamen plants grown by Iwaki Agricultural High School students, resuming a local tradition for...