The Japanese government has updated its earthquake preparedness plan due to increased risks of a megaquake in the Nankai ...

Japan`s government unveils a new disaster preparedness plan amid rising fears of a major earthquake in the Nankai Trough ...

The Japanese government said that much more needs to be done to prepare for a possible “megaquake” to reduce the feared death ...

Japan's government has officially endorsed the basic plan on measures for an anticipated massive earthquake in the Nankai ...

According to the latest estimate disclosed in March, the death toll from a Nankai Trough megaquake is expected to reach up to ...

Japan has warned that its plans to handle a megaquake in the Nankai Trough still fall short of saving thousands of lives. The ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll ...

The central government has designated 723 municipalities in 30 prefectures for ramping up disaster mitigation measures based ...

The Nankai Trough is a 700-kilometer long (435-mile) subduction zone, which refers to when tectonic plates slip beneath each other. Most of the world’s earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by ...

The most recent Nankai Trough quake happened in 1946 when a magnitude 8 tremor and 6.9-metre (22.6-ft) tsunami waves killed 1,330 people. ($1 = 147.0700 yen) (This story has been refiled to fix a ...

A long-feared megaquake along the Nankai Trough could cause 1,466 trillion yen ($10 trillion) in damage, experts said, revising up their previous estimate by 56 trillion yen.