HDI Global SE’s Japan branch, part of Germany-based insurer Talanx AG, has been approved by the Japanese Financial Services ...

Over 60 residents from the islands of Akuseki and Kodakara in the Tokara chain have evacuated. They left in early July after ...

Serious misconduct carried out by a financial institution that plays a key role in a regional economy is unacceptable. Iwaki Shinkumi, a credit cooperative based in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and ...

A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands on Monday, according to the USGS and GEOFON. The quake occurred near the city of Tual in Maluku province at a depth of 66 km.

A senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker resigned Monday as head of the House of Councillors' powerful Budget ...

Criticized from all sides, the chair of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Upper House Budget Committee decided to resign from the post for a remark that angered survivors of the deadly Noto ...

Japan’s Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture have been rattled by more than 2,000 earthquakes since June 21, marking the ...

The massive blaze has already scorched 8,925 acres and remains completely uncontained, with firefighters struggling to gain ...

JAKARTA: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Monday off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said ...

This tool gives coastal communities a science-based way to assess their disaster readiness. Scientists make fascinating discovery after studying earthquakes and tsunamis: 'Critical insights' first ...

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...