Japan plays music daily as a disaster warning system test. This system, Bosai Musen, alerts citizens to potential earthquakes ...

TOKYO: The Disaster Management Agency, a new disaster-response organisation, is expected to be launched as early as November.

Residents across the Chugoku region on Monday mourned over 300 people who lost their lives in the incident that hit the area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Cleanup and recovery efforts have ...

The Diet on July 13 enacted legislation to create a powerful new agency that will prepare Japan for catastrophic events like ...

Japan’s parliament on Monday enacted a law to establish a disaster management agency that will oversee crisis response and ...

Recent climate change and urbanisation have increased the risk of more severe disasters. In particular, the Indo-Pacific is ...

People in Ehime Prefecture have gathered to remember those who died in the July 2018 rain disaster that hit wide areas of ...

Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year, but some people who have upcoming itineraries in Japan may be rethinking their plans. The reason: a Japanese comic book, or manga, that warns of ...

Japan's parliament Monday passed into law a bill to establish a disaster management agency, which will act as the government's command center for disaster reduction measures and responses. The bill wa ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...