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Japan’s Reconstruction Minister Masahiro Imamura plans to step down after apologizing for remarks he made about the country’s devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, national broadcaster NHK reported late Tuesday. Imamura, who oversees post-disaster ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's disaster reconstruction minister is expected to resign on Wednesday following his controversial remarks over the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, local media reported. Masahiro Imamura plans to submit his ... ( read original story ...)

KUMAMOTO – Shinobu Yamato, 49, still can’t wash a pair of socks that her son, Hikaru, had left lying around before he was killed in the earthquakes that rocked Kumamoto Prefecture and its vicinity last April. “I feel like I can still feel my son ... ( read original story ...)

EBINA, Japan—Jehovah’s Witnesses in Japan completed repair work on 348 homes of their fellow members, which were damaged by the earthquakes that struck Kumamoto, Japan, on April 14 and 16, 2016. Some 15,000 volunteers participated in the construction ... ( read original story ...)

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Iiyama in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 138.6341 East, latitude 36.8923 North, depth = 1.91 km. Event id: us10008hk5. Ids that are associated to ... ( read original story ...)

Online document was drafted by expert group to provide future generations with lessons from tragedies The Japanese government surreptitiously deleted a report from its webpage with details about the massacre of Koreans in the wake of the Great Kanto ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo: Japan on Friday commemorated the first anniversary of a massive earthquake that struck the region of Kumamoto, resulting in 225 deaths. Relatives of victims and Japanese authorities, including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gathered in the city of ... ( read original story ...)

Chikyu will attempt the first ever expedition to the center of the Earth (specifically the mantle). Japan's Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology or (JAMSTEC) will attempt the expedition on September. One of its purposes is to find a way to ... ( read original story ...)

He noted that in 1995 a state-of-the-art port was destroyed in Kobe, Japan following a 6.9 magnitude earthquake, even though Japan is one of the most earthquake-prepared countries in the world. “They lost their entire market share to Tokyo and other ... ( read original story ...)

Sarah Ichioka, a Japanese-American urbanist currently based in Singapore and former director of the Architecture Foundation in London, explains how earthquakes and tsunamis forge a unique context: "This unstable environment has created a culture that ... ( read original story ...)

Japan is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire. The “ring” is a horse-shoe shaped basin along the Pacific Ocean. About 90 percent of all seismic activity in the world takes place in this region. ( read original story ...)

(The following statement was released by the rating agency) Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Japan Earthquake Insurance Dashboard 2017 here HONG KONG/TOKYO, March 28 (Fitch) Japanese corporates continue to be significantly underinsured for commercial ... ( read original story ...)

But fate intervened. Still, it was the first bullet train to derail since Japan started high-speed railway services in 1964. Confronted with major disasters such as the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Big earthquakes happen infrequently enough in the Northwest that people can be lulled into complacency. That’s not the case in Japan. Most large Japanese cities have at least one disaster training center, where people can learn in realistic simulators ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese architecture and building codes have evolved over time to defend against the ever-present threat of earthquakes. Still, no amount of calculations, small-scale physical models or virtual computer modeling can substitute for real world testing. ( read original story ...)

The incredible search and rescue dog almost lost his own life working amid the horrific scenes of devastation in the aftermath of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. A field surgeon treated Bryn’s life-threatening injuries suffered in the rubble ... ( read original story ...)