A moderate earthquake hit off southwest Japan late on Saturday but there no immediate reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said.

The tremor hit off southwestern Tanegashima island 1,000 kil

Japan's government has announced it will ban farmers from planting rice in soil contaminated by radiation from the tsunami-flooded nuclear power plant, adding another food central to Japanese culture

At least 82 children were orphaned by the huge earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan last month, the government said.

The figure, from a preliminary government survey, is already

An increasing number of people are experiencing motion sickness in Japan due to hundreds of aftershocks since the massive earthquake of March 11, physicians say.

"We are seeing a sharp increase in th

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is to visit Japan this month in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left more than 27,000 people dead or missing, a report said on Thursday.

Workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen into a crippled reactor in a bid to prevent a possible explosion, as the government mulled widening an exclusion zone around the site.

Tokyo: A powerful earthquake hit northeastern Japan late Thursday, prompting a tsunami alert to be issued, according to a TV report.

The quake, which hit at 11:32 pm local time (1432 GMT), had a magn

A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake late on Thursday hit the same area of Japan that was ravaged by disaster a month ago, seismologists said, prompting a local tsunami alert that was later cancelled.

Workers at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant on Wednesday finally halted a leak that was sending a tide of radioactive water into the Pacific and exacerbating concerns over the safety of sea

The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant started paying 'condolence money' on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into th