The earthquake triggered a tsunami alert in Miyagi and Fukushima ... cut electricity to more than 2.2 million homes in the Kanto, Tohoku and other regions, including the Tokyo area.

A strong earthquake shook the Tohoku region on the morning of April 2, but there were no reports of injuries and no tsunami threat. The quake struck at 4:24 a.m., with its epicenter off the coast ...

TOKYO, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck Fukushima Prefecture's Aizu region early Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency has warned of potential aftershocks of similar ...

In 2011, the deadliest quake and subsequent tsunami in recent Japanese history struck northwest of the capital Tokyo and killed at least 20,000 people. The 9.1 magnitude Tohoku earthquake spiraled ...

Just days ahead of the anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated swathes of northeast Japan, there is growing concern that a new series of moderate quakes off the east ...

and giant tsunami waves engulfed a broad area of the Pacific coast of Tohoku to Kanto regions. The death toll from the series of earthquake and tsunami has exceeded 15,000, far outnumbered that of ...