Fire broke out on a Japanese warship sailing near the western part of the country, causing one crew member to be hospitalised due to smoke inhalation, while another was missing, Japan's navy said on ...

Major lines operated by East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) in the Tokyo area were temporarily suspended on the afternoon of Oct. 10 after an electrical fire broke out at a substation in Saitama ...

The capital hopes to improve living conditions at evacuation centers and boost its disaster response capability.

While here, they had, in many ways, a typical tourist itinerary, visiting Sensoji, Tokyo’s most famous Buddhist temple in ... to envision a scenario where someone inadvertently started a fire in the ...

A fire broke out at a high-rise building in Shibuya, central Tokyo, on Monday, October 21, while someone was venting spray cans on the 19th-floor balcony. A male worker in his forties suffered a ...

This story has been corrected. YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The “room” attached to the back of a Tokyo Fire Department truck began to shake violently as the occupants crouched beneath a flimsy ...

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 46-year-old man on murder and arson charges after he allegedly killed his ex-wife and four children and then set fire to the house where ...

the Tokyo Fire Department and local medical associations, participated. The drill was conducted under the scenario that a passenger jet skidded off the runway upon landing, and then an engine ...

Tokyo Metro had raised over $2 billion in one of Japan’s largest initial public offerings in years. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo The stock price of Tokyo Metro soared 45 percent on ...

The best time to visit Tokyo is between March and April and September and November. Autumn ushers in colorful foliage and comfortable temperatures. Spring brings in much of the same, but instead ...

Asia’s spiritual traditions of nature worship and religious syncretism are the starting point for Mami Kataoka’s curation of this year’s AWT Focus exhibition, Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the ...

The transport ministry, the Tokyo Fire Department and other organizations conducted a large-scale rescue drill at Haneda Airport on Thursday, where a Japan Airlines passenger jet and a Japan Coast ...