An eruption of the iconic mountain could release 10 times the amount of debris generated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

YOKOHAMA--Historic negatives that capture the destruction to this port city close to Tokyo caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake are causing a stir among researchers. Twenty-eight glass dry ...

1 for Korean residents massacred in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. However, she sent a message of condolence to a memorial ceremony held the same day for the 100,000-plus ...

(USGS/George A. Lang Collection) See more archival images of the Kanto Earthquake. I. As if it had slid suddenly into a sea of tossing, choppy waves, the coach pitched up and down, lurched ...

The capital of Japan experiences thousands of tremors annually, and its history is marked by devastating quakes, including the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, which claimed over 140,000 lives.

NHK's archives house an extensive collection of photographs and videos of central Tokyo taken soon after the Great Kanto Earthquake that hit eastern Japan in 1923. In a then-and-now series ...

Even after the quake itself subsided, the tragedy of the Great Kanto Earthquake was only beginning. An unlikely "fire tornado" consumed a site where 40,000 evacuees had gathered, leaving few ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

Campaigners fight to keep the massacre of ethnic Koreans in the spotlight, despite the government's disinterest in interrogating the dark history.