tsunami
May 15, 2013
Nearly 1,800 islanders would likely perish if a massive earthquake struck along the Nankai Trough on the Pacific side of Japan's mainland, a study says.
April 30, 2013
Disaster-plagued Indonesia will become the first Southeast Asian country to employ an advanced Japanese early warning system for earthquakes and tsunami.
April 27, 2013
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...
April 25, 2013
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--Five cherry trees that survived the tsunami disaster two years ago have bloomed for the last time.
April 09, 2013
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--After her buoy survived a 5,000-kilometer journey across the Pacific, Sakiko Miura, 64, plans to keep it safely indoors when her restaurant...
April 09, 2013
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) has developed a system that will provide tsunami warnings to vessels, giving them time to determine the best course of action, the shipping...
April 02, 2013
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Years from now, 17,000 cherry trees will mark a 170-kilometer stretch of the Tohoku region that was devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami...
March 30, 2013
Chilly weather returned while the cherry blossoms were still in full bloom, and fallen petals could be seen floating in small pink clusters on the surface of ponds. In Japan,...
March 29, 2013
Residents living near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have reacted strongly to a proposal to preserve parts of the site as a cautionary example for future...
March 25, 2013
TOKUSHIMA--A picture book about how to escape an approaching tsunami has been flying off bookshelves since it was published in October, and now "Yori Takaku, Yori Hayaku"...
March 24, 2013
The scars of the earthquake and tsunami disaster that devastated coastlines of northeastern Japan two years ago are still visible, prompting calls in affected local communities ...
March 20, 2013
Although central and local governments have been upgrading their disaster damage projections and crisis management plans, Toshitaka Katada, professor at Gunma University,...
March 19, 2013
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 ...
March 16, 2013
Some 2,000 tons of drifting debris from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan two years ago have washed up on the shores of North America so far, and estimates are that...
March 14, 2013
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.
March 12, 2013
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--It is one of countless indelible images that came from the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 12, 2013
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia--Students here marked the second anniversary of Japan's 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami with prayers and expressions of solidarity with the...
March 11, 2013
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 ...
March 11, 2013
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--Keiko Nakajima lost her parents, her brother and her sister-in-law in the tsunami of March 11, 2011.
March 10, 2013
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...