The twin Pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, may have to leave Japan by next month if China declines to renew the bilateral ...

Twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to China in late January, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about 50 years. Officials announced Monday that the twins, Xiao Xiao and ...

With her health failing and an information vacuum around Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her son worries ...

A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

The quake, which occurred off the coast of Aomori prefecture, followed a 7.5-magnitude earthquake this week that injured at ...

Due to the impact of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck on December 8, a steel tower in the heart of Aomori’s ...

About 80 other people were injured in the attack Wednesday night on the general hospital in Mrauk-U township, an area ...

Misawa Air Base, a joint base in Japan, did not suffer serious damage from a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck, Dec. 8.

Japan's Hokkaido–Sanriku coastal region is under a rare "subsequent earthquake" advisory following a strong magnitude 7.5 ...

Japan issues its first-ever megaquake advisory after a magnitude-7.6 tremor, warning of a possible monster-high tsunami along Hokkaido and Sanriku coasts. The nation is now focused on one critical ...