Tag: earthquake

September 5, 1923It is not possible for imagination to picture in all its terrors the calamity which has befallen Japan. Nothing in the recorded ... ( read original story ...)

Despite significant improvements in the structural resilience of buildings since the Great Kanto earthquake, which took place 100 years ago in Japan, ... ( read original story ...)

From The Times, September 2, 1923By an inscrutable decree of Providence a great and progressive nation has been visited with a calamity, the full extent of whic ( read original story ...)

Quakes of this size could “challenge the survival of Japan as a state” and send economic shock waves around the globe, says Fukuwa Nobuo of Nagoya University. After the next Tokyo quake, recovering ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has urged people to act to protect their lives in a mock news conference for a national disaster drill on the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake. ( read original story ...)

Japan on Friday marked the centenary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated the capital and surrounding areas, killing an esti ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government has risked a new row with South Korea after insisting there was no official evidence of a massacre of ethnic Koreans following a catastr ... ( read original story ...)

Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the subsequent massacre of thousands of ethnic Koreans that haunts the community to this day.Over ... ( read original story ...)

As Japan prepared in July to release treated wastewater from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, social media users have shared an image alongside a false claim that it shows a forecast by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of how radioactive substances will spread in the Pacific Ocean. ( read original ...

Tensions have soared since Japan began releasing Fukushima’s wastewater into the Pacific despite China’s opposition. ( read original story ...)

Japan started the water discharge on Thursday in a key step toward decommissioning the Fukushima plant, which suffered triple meltdowns after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 following a powerful ... ( read original story ...)

The original announcement, made in 2021, came 10 years after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's east coast, damaging the cooling mechanisms at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station ... ( read original story ...)

Workers in Japan started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima area and triggered reactor meltdowns at the plant. ( read original story ...)

Newly discovered footage taken in Shizuoka Prefecture after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake constitutes what is probably among the oldest 35-millimeter records of tsunami damage in Japan. ( read original story ...)

Pediatrician Yoichi Yatsuda is one of the residents who have returned to Futaba since the evacuation order was lifted in August last year. Futaba had a population of more than 7,000 before the ... ( read original story ...)

China immediately banned imports of seafood from Japan in response, adding to worries in the fisheries community and related businesses. In Seoul on Saturday, thousands of South Koreans took to the ... ( read original story ...)