Japan and Taiwan both have a history of learning from numerous and diverse natural disasters and building affluent societies by drawing on the lessons learned. They have also supported each other as ...

Money-seeking changes to the X platform, formerly Twitter, hindered many local governments in Japan from sending evacuation information to residents during heavy rainfalls this summer. Some of these ...

The bill is expected to be enacted during the current parliamentary session, with the government aiming to set up the agency ...

The government is establishing a system to quickly dispatch Disaster Welfare Assistance Teams, or DWATs, to disaster-hit ...

More than a decade after one of the worst natural disasters of our time, people in Japan are still living under the threat of another disaster of this kind occurring in their country. A recent survey ...

This week marks 15 years since the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal communities in northeastern Japan’s Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate Prefectures. Even a decade and ...

A stack of copies of "Watashi ga mita mirai" (The future I saw) by Ryo Tatsuki is seen at a bookstore in Tokyo in May 2025. (Mainichi/Ayane Matsuyama) TOKYO -- Prophecies of disaster written in a 1999 ...

While I understand how this might trigger bad memories, don't make it all about you. Japan is in a great position to help the people of Kamchatka because of Japan's experiences. Russia needs that help ...

Over the past few weeks, a once-obscure manga has been making headlines in Japan and overseas. In “The Future I Saw” (Watashi ga Mita Mirai), author Ryo Tatsuki claims that Japan will be hit by a ...

This file photo shows a venue to return keepsakes in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in March 2015. (Kyodo) MORIOKA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Some 790,000 items discovered in the aftermath of a devastating ...