The cancellations follow the spread of predictions linked to a manga depicting a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

Viral rumours of impending disaster stemming from a comic book prediction have taken the sheen off Japan's tourism boom, with ...

There have been more than 900 earthquakes, most of them small tremors, on islands off the southern tip of Kyushu in recent ...

Biodiversity continued to decrease in most of the areas we studied, irrespective of population increase or decrease. Only ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.

Japan plans to build an underground bomb shelter on its westernmost island that’s capable of housing up to 200 people.

Hundreds of glass floats are hidden around Block Island, off the coast of mainland Rhode Island, every summer. This is how ...

A Hawaiʻi County commission calls for a pause in the project until the state establishes rules regulating discharge of micro- ...

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in ...

Japan’s army says it has conducted a missile test for the first time on Japanese territory as the country accelerates its ...