On Sept. 1, 1923, Tokyo and Yokohama were engulfed by horrific fires spawned by the Great Kanto Earthquake. A century later, Japanese should ask themselves whether the nation’s capital ...

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, a magnitude-7.9 quake that left 105,000 people dead, struck between the boundaries of the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate.

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

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 ...

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.

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ... and her team looked at data from the eastern Kanto region of Japan, including Tokyo. The region is situated where the Philippine Sea Plate is ...