SENDAI—An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

SENDAI—The central government’s first disaster advisory under a new warning system caused confusion among foreign residents and even Japanese citizens.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan, triggering tsunami warnings, Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) said on Monday. Roughly 40 minutes after the earthquake, a tsunami wave ...

A powerful earthquake hit wider areas in Japan's Tohoku and Kanto regions late on 16 March, causing a shutdown of around 6.5GW of thermal power and leading to tighter electricity supplies. A 7.4 ...

Zuigan-ji Temple in Matsushima, one of the sites damaged in the 2011 tsunami (image via wikipedia.org) Beyond a rising death toll of over 10,800, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in northern ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Regional authorities in Japan on Friday approved the restart of the idled Sendai nuclear plant of Kyushu Electric Power Co, paving the way for a revival of the stalled industry more ...