Japan is of course susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis because of its geographical location but everyone around the world will be hoping that we don't see this particular prediction come true this ...

China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant.      A ...

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As many as 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain, south of Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological ...

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been rattled by more than 470 earthquakes since Saturday, the national weather ...

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TOKYO, June 22. /TASS/. A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. The epicenter was ...

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Japanese meteorological agency chief on Friday dismissed growing rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as groundless and “hoax,” urging people not to worry because even today’s most advsan ...

TOKYO (AP) — The head of Japan's meteorological agency on Friday dismissed widespread rumors of a major earthquake in Japan this summer as unscientific and a “hoax," urging people not to worry ...