The risk of a complex disaster, as what happened 100 years ago in the Great Kanto Earthquake, is extremely high in Japan today.
Regional democracies are increasing cooperative exercises on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief as initiatives to further stability and security.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has expressed strong concern about the risk of a nuclear disaster as Russian troops use the plant as an attack...
There are only a handful of volcanologists and seismologists to monitor Japan’s lineup of active volcanoes, from Sakurajima to Izu Oshima to Mount Fuji.
While absolved by the Supreme Court of responsibility, the Japanese government must carefully explain to the nation why nuclear energy is essential.
The full length of the Japanese archipelago is now in a phase of active seismic activity, elevating the need for emergency planning — now, not later.
The Summer Games also exposed various inadequacies in Japanese emergency abilities and distortions in postwar Japanese society.
For Tokyo University, the main objective is to use the technology developed for local problem solving. But the team is also aiming to contribute to JAXA’s...
Sex scandals and corruption allegations have led to a shift from left to right but candidates on both sides claimed their opponents were “too pro-Japan”.
Ten years and about 750 articles later, here’s why the Kodomo Shimbun recently won the Eiji Yoshikawa Culture Award
The plot centers around 50 employees at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who were among hundreds who risked their lives to prevent a complete meltdown...
It’s a mark of how deep the links run between Japan and Taiwan, that, among those in Taipei who attended to hear tsunami survivors, were some...