Newly arrived U.S. service members and local citizens came together for a disaster preparation course to help people deal with the natural hazards of coastal Japan.

The world witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster, triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and the resulting tsunami, caused a chain reaction of failures that led to a nuclear meltdown and the ...

A local assembly in Japan voted to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant. This plant has been idle since a 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan at a plant run by the same company. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports the restart is going ahead despite local ...

In a country where natural disasters are a constant threat, Japan has launched its first private-sector network dedicated to supporting evacuees, aiming to prevent avoidable deaths and safeguard human dignity in evacuation shelters. The Essential Disaster ...

Japan’s latest disaster advisory has revived a chilling term in the seismology world: “megaquake.” The warning followed a powerful offshore shock and raised the prospect of a far larger rupture that could unleash towering waves, flatten coastal ...