Inspired by the work of an American missionary long ago, Seiji Yoshimura helps out at disaster sites across Asia, including in his native Japan.

The Turkish government has signed a $22bn (£14bn) deal with a Japanese-French consortium to build a new nuclear power station.

The Turkish nuclear energy deal will be the first major order for France and Japan since the meltdown of reactors at Fukushima in 2011 following an earthquake and tsunami. Turkey picked Russia’s Rosatom Corp. and ZAO Atomstroyexport for its first facility at a cost of $20 billion.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, May 3 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the United Arab Emirates produced a deal allowing Japan to sell nuclear power technologies, officials said.

The Singapore Red Cross has opened a S$5 million nursery school in Shichigahama, Japan.

The weakening yen has turned Japan’s annual Golden Week, a string of springtime holidays, into a boon for domestic tourism.

World War II lingers for Russia and Japan. Nearly 68 years after the fighting ended, the two Asian powers have yet to sign a peace treaty.        

For all of the devastation caused by the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan, the former, a 9.0 magnitude beast called “Tohoku,” could have claimed far more lives. The reason it didn’t? Since 2007, Japan has had an early warning system—conceived ten years ago at Caltech—which California still hasn’t managed to set up. And while it only gives about a minute notice, it's a minute Californians ...

With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

( University of California - Santa Cruz ) With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 1 (UPI) -- Japan and Saudi Arabia agreed to discuss conducting negotiations for the export of Japanese nuclear energy technologies, an official said.

An early warning system would save thousands of lives when the next Big One hits. But will California find the money to implement it? by Azeen Ghorayshi At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the Pacific Plate, just off Japan's northeast coast, suddenly thrust downward, unleashing a monstrous, 9.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked the country for the next six minutes. The massive Tohoku quake and ...

SANTA CRUZ -- With the successful retrieval of a string of instruments from deep beneath the seafloor, an international team of scientists has completed an unprecedented series of operations to obtain crucial temperature measurements of the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

Japan’s power utilities reported combined losses of about 1.6 trillion yen a year ago, the equivalent of $20 billion at the time. Yesterday, they repeated the performance.

UCR will host a photo exhibition that examines the effects of the 2011 earthquake.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was crippled in March 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami. Groundwater continues to pour into its reactor buildings, and workers are pumping it out. A forest likely will be cut down to make room for more storage tanks. Meanwhile, some storage facilities are leaking.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was crippled in March 2011 by an earthquake and tsunami. Groundwater continues to pour into its reactor buildings, and workers are pumping it out. A forest likely will be cut down to make room for more storage tanks. Meanwhile, some storage facilities are leaking.

Japanese fund managers cut their allocations for global equities to a seven-month low in April on mounting signs of slowdown in U.S. and Chinese economies, and as a rally in world share prices raised their ...

Japanese fund managers cut their allocations for global equities to a seven-month low in April on mounting signs of slowdown in U.S. and Chinese economies, and as a rally in world share prices raised their ...