The Yomiuri Shimbun Imam Yusuke Fujitani explains about the onion-shaped dome while standing on the minaret of Kobe Muslim ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck Banda Sea in Indonesia on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

On today's date in 1707, a catastrophic 8.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan. This quake may have played a role in the last ...

Tomiichi Murayama, who has died aged 101, was a hitherto unsung politician who unexpectedly became prime minister of Japan ...

The hardline conservative emulated her hero Margaret Thatcher after a whirlwind few weeks of political wrangling.

I am thinking of getting away from the crowds in Osaka and staying 2-3 nites in Kobe instead. Am I making a big mistake in doing so? I will be heading to Kyoto for another 4 nights so I thought I can ...

TOKYO - Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama has died at the age of 101, local media reported.

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's former prime minister known for his landmark apology over World War II, died on Friday at age 101. His 1995 statement set a benchmark for Japan's wartime remorse and ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims of his country’s aggression, has died. He was 101.

A 6.9-magnitude aftershock jolted quake-hit southern Philippines, triggering a fresh tsunami alert just hours after an ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...