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The Japan Meteorological Agency's first "megaquake advisory" sparked public unease and prompted local authorities to begin introducing precautionary measures. ( read original story ...)

There was, Japan's meteorological agency said, an increased risk of a "major earthquake". Japan's prime minister has cancelled a planned trip to a summit in Central Asia to be in the country for the next week. ( read original story ...)

The Monterey police department said that they are investigating an attempted murder that occurred Tuesday night at Municipal Wharf 2. ( read original story ...)

This is Rai Benjamin's first ever Olympic gold medal after coming in second to Norway's Karsten Warholm in Tokyo. See his winning time ( read original story ...)

Learn more about Tokyo Olympic individual jumping gold medalist Ben Maher from Great Britain as he prepares for an intense week of competition in Paris. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, ( read original story ...)

Japan cemented its spot at the top of wrestling's medal table with two more freestyle gold medals on Friday. In the women's 57kg class, Tsugumi Sakurai beat Moldova's Anastasia Nichita in the gold-medal match. ( read original story ...)

Paris Olympics, USA's wrestler Kyle Dake loses a thrilling 74kg semifinal to Japan's Daichi Takatani, who advances to the final. Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics on NBC and streaming on Peacock, July 26 - Aug 11. ( read original story ...)

Kyoto's previous victory over Nagoya was like a timely rain that boosted their morale. On the other hand, after a short break, can Nagoya regain their lost sharpness? I predict it will be a closely ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's meteorological agency has published a map showing which parts of the country could be struck by a tsunami in the event of a megaquake in the Nankai Trough. The color-coded map shows the potential tsunami height across the region, with some areas facing waves as high as 20 meters, or approximately 65 feet. ( read ...

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s Olympics ended in a dramatic standoff at a Tokyo airport when officials from the Belarus team tried to send her home against her will ( read original story ...)

A magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit Tokyo and eastern parts of Japan on Friday evening, the government said, a day after it issued the first-ever advisory about the risk of a huge earthquake in the west of ... ( read original story ...)

Japan issued its first-ever advisory on higher-than-usual risks of a megaquake, after a strong magnitude 7.1 quake occurred on Thursday at the edge of a tremulous seabed zone along the Pacific coast ... ( read original story ...)

Japan marked the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city days before the end of World War II at a ceremony in Nagasaki. ( read original story ...)

A comeback rally in Japanese stocks has quickly lost steam, as the specter of a US economic slowdown and further yen volatility cast a long shadow across financial markets. ( read original story ...)

A 27-year-old resident in this western Japan city was arrested on Aug. 8 on suspicion of inflicting injury on her son by giving him liquid si ( read original story ...)

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering cancelling a visit to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia planned from Friday to Monday after weather officials flagged that the risk of a major earthquake was higher than usual, ( read original story ...)