Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...
Nearly 80 percent of municipalities within 30 kilometers of 15 nuclear power plants across Japan have a lower proportion of ...
The Nankai Trough stretches from Shizuoka ... in the magnitude-6 class after the magnitude-7.6 earthquake “has never been observed before in Japan.” (This article was written by Takahiro ...
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will revise its policy on releasing "stockpiled rice" only ...
The Self-Defense Forces have made efforts to strengthen cooperation with local governments in preparation for a major ...
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...
Japan will sell 210,000 tons of rice from its emergency stockpiles as households are paying record prices for the grain. Most ...
The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.
The government will release up to 210,000 tons of its stockpiled rice, farm minister Taku Eto says, in a bid to ensure smooth ...
Japan faced a massive earthquake, a huge tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown. All things considered, they fared pretty well. Why?
Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.
About 90% of earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which stretches all the way from New Zealand, up through Indonesia and Japan, across the Pacific at Alaska's Aleutian Islands ...