As reasons for the about-face, the government cited the need to ensure stable electricity supplies and secure carbon-free energy sources ...
The government has compiled a policy to make full use of nuclear power — a major shift from its stance of reducing the ...
In recent years the site has served as a backdrop for documentaries, films, and even pop culture phenomena like the James ...
On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...
Over 700 letters from Japanese students expressing appreciation for U.S. assistance for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are ...
The Japan aerial imaging market is poised to grow significantly, crossing USD 2.2 billion by 2035. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are revolutionizing aerial imaging applications in agriculture, ...
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network director Harold Tobin joined KUOW’s Kim Malcolm to discuss our recent shakeups, and how to ...
In August, a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance plane briefly violated Japanese airspace off the southern main island of Kyushu, prompting Japan’s military to scramble fighter jets and warn the plane. A ...
JR Kyushu has a diversified asset base outside of the rail business, with around 60% of prepandemic earnings from its other businesses in real estate, retail, restaurants, construction, engineering, ...
A highest-level warning for a Nankai Trough megaquake would prompt a government evacuation advisory for 670,000 people, but ...
(Mainichi/Munehisa Ishida) FUKUOKA -- "White powder" found by a train conductor in a bathroom of a train that had not yet departed from JR Kokura Station in the southwest Japan city of Kitakyushu ...
Kyushu, Japan’s high-tech hub known as the "Silicon Island," is looking to collaborate with Vietnam in the semiconductor industry. A delegation of semiconductor firms from Kyushu recently visited ...