Under the new plan, for example, the prefectural governments of Toyama, Fukushima and Shimane will send officials to Shizuoka ...

The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry will designate in advance local governments that will dispatch relief ...

The aim of the policy is to enable local governments that will provide support, and the prefectures expected to receive help, to conduct joint disaster drills and other preparations.

The season's most powerful cold air mass has been gripping Japan this week. As regions on the Sea of Japan coast are hit with heavy snowfall, survivors of last year's Noto Peninsula earthquake are ...

With record visitor numbers in 2024 putting strain on Japan's tourist hotpots, here are four places to visit far away from crowds in 2025 If it felt like everyone you knew had been on holiday to Japan ...

which is also regarded as recovery of tourism from the damages by Noto Peninsula Earthquake. JNTO revealed that international visitors to Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures in the ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New England Monday. It caught the entire region by surprise, public safety dispatch ...

BOSTON - An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday was centered off York Harbor, Maine according to the United States Geological Survey. It was also felt in New Hampshire and Rhode ...

BOSTON - An earthquake just off the Maine coastline on Monday could be felt in Boston and hundreds of miles away into Connecticut and Vermont, according to a "shake map" from the United States ...

AND IT WAS A SURPRISE TO MANY THAT THAT NOISE AND SHAKING WAS A 3.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE. LESS THAN TEN MILES EAST OF PORTSMOUTH. IT DOESN’T USUALLY HAPPEN HERE VERY OFTEN. DO YOU THINK OF ...