TOKYO - Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday that he is set to make a weeklong trip to the United States ...

With Japan preparing to restart a nuclear reactor, the world's largest, in the coastal prefecture of Niigata, a Newsweek map ...

An analysis of last summer's quake showed that tsunami initially traveled across the Pacific Ocean and reached South America, about 15,000 kilometres away from the epicenter. The rebound tsunami was ...

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- China tightens exports of dual-use items to Japan as row escalates BEIJING - China on Tuesday tightened ...

Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist and a former member of a Japanese government panel on nuclear reactor safety, ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, followed by a series of ...

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake hit western Japan on Tuesday but there was no danger of a tsunami. The quake, with a ...

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake shook western Japan on Tuesday, but no major damage or life-threatening injuries were ...

TOKYO — A strong earthquake hit western Japan on Tuesday but there was no danger of a tsunami, officials said. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, occurred in Shimane prefecture in ...

TOKYO – A strong earthquake hit the Chugoku region, registering a upper 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Sakai-Minato, Hino and Kofu, Tottori Prefecture, and Matsue and Yasugi, ...

Multiple earthquakes struck western Japan on Tuesday, local time, centered in Shimane Prefecture and neighboring Tottori ...

The epicenter of the first earthquake was in eastern Shimane prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.