Shortly before the outbreak of World War 2, the Japanese were already preparing to conquer the Pacific. However, the United States stood in their way. The Japanese Imperial Navy then resolved to build ...

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Nearly half of municipalities across Japan say evacuation shelters they are preparing do not meet government guidelines on ...

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A new study from Virginia Tech, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, estimates a 15% chance of a ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, stretching from Northern California to Vancouver Island, could trigger a catastrophic ...

There are more than 1,000 tsunami shelters across Taiwan, Deputy Minister of the Interior Wu Tang-an (吳堂安) said yesterday, as ...

The latest news and top stories on the University of Tokyo. A prominent Tokyo based public research university, the University of Tokyo is dedicated to expanding human knowledge and nurturing global ...

While pop music blared in the operating room, Hiroshi Sasaki performed cataract surgery on nearly 40 patients, having started ...

But Hong Kongers took it particularly seriously. Several prominent feng-shui masters, experts in ancient Chinese geomancy, ...