TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said. No tsunami warning has been issued. The 2:49 a.m. quake ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said. No tsunami warning has been issued. The 2:49 a.m. quake measured ...

KATSURAO, Fukushima Prefecture--The struggles of a ... from mid-December due to tight supply and demand caused by a cold wave. On Jan. 15, the price reached a peak of 251 yen per kilowatt-hour ...

It’s 10 years since Japan was hit by a giant 9.0-magnitude ... towns and villages were engulfed by the wave. The disaster triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant 250km north ...

Any tsunami could cause far more damage than the earthquake, as what happened in the horror 2011 wave that hit Fukushima. Masamasa Sato, chief of the crisis management department of Takanabe Town ...

A 19-year-old student from Osaka Prefecture was fatally struck on the day of a university entrance exam by an alleged drunken driver early Wednesday morning in front of Koriyama Station in ...

In addition to Niigata Prefecture, the snow brought by the cold wave has affected a vast area ... certain sections of highways in Niigata and Fukushima prefectures are closed all day Thursday.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday visited Fukushima Prefecture, hit hard by an earthquake in 2011 that triggered a crisis at a nuclear complex, to inspect a temporary storage site for soil ...

Jagaimo hails from the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture ... that all up in the middle as long as we had the disaster-hit communities in mind,” Yamaguchi said, sounding somewhat remorseful.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at 2:49 a.m. on Thursday. Officials say there is no threat of tsunami. An intensity of lower 5 on Japan's seismic ...