Opened in 1988, the tunnel overcame major engineering challenges and has boosted tourism and trade between Japan's islands.

Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu -- and I recently realized that, save Fukushima Prefecture, I had never fully explored the six-prefecture Tohoku region in the ...

The consulate general of Japan in Kolkata has invited a delegation of the tourism department of Burdwan University to visit ...

How big is the Pacific Ring of Fire? The Ring of Fire dominates the Pacific Ocean. It's a string of at least 450 active and dormant volcanoes that form a semi-circle, or horse shoe, around the ...

Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along ...

TOKYO — A moderately strong magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of central Japan Tuesday night, rattling an area still traumatized by a devastating January jolt. No tsunami alert was ...

Earthquake Today: An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred on 26 November 2024 in Japan's north-central region of Noto Peninsula at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles) at around 10.47 pm, according to the ...

Heads up if you’re travelling in Japan! The Land of the Rising Sun was recently rattled by a pair of powerful earthquakes. On ...

(Reuters) -A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck near the west coast of Honshu, Japan on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The earthquake was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). No ...

TOKYO (Reuters): A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck near the west coast of Honshu, Japan on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. The earthquake was at a depth of 8 km (5 ...