The project is aimed at securing human resources for community development and creating 'related populations,' or people who ...
Japan's cabinet has endorsed a basic policy for the establishment of a disaster management agency next November, stating the agency will oversee the response to disasters in the quake-prone country ...
In a model project by Japan's internal affairs ministry, municipalities in the countryside are collaborating with university students from urban areas, in order to leverage young people's ideas for ...
The megathrust fault zone is like an air hockey table,’ Solomon, a seafloor geologist at the University of Washington, ...
Disasters strike without warning. Kindai University senior Tsuyoshi Kitahara, 21, has come up with a gamified evacuation ...
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at approximately 56 miles, 91 ...
The remote Japanese city of Suzu was already struggling to maintain its aging infrastructure when a massive earthquake hit on ...
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's eastern Noda region on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 19.3 km (11.99 miles), the USGS said.