Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ... First, people were awakened at night by a loud rumbling.

As many as 298,000 people could die from tsunamis and building collapses if the quake occurs late at night in winter, the report showed. The trough is off Japan's southwest Pacific coast and runs ...

The megaquake has an 80 per cent chance of occurring within 30 years. A possible magnitude-nine earthquake along the Nankai Trough, a submarine trough near the South of Japan, may lead to up to ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Up to 298,000 people in Japan could die in a megaquake ... a magnitude 9-class earthquake occurring on a winter night, with severe damage concentrated in the Tokai region.

Winter in Japan's oldest private herb garden in Uda, Nara Prefecture. As fallen leaves and withered grass cover the ground, the search begins for treasures hidden beneath the frozen soil.

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima Prefecture--About 300 dazzling fireworks lit up the cold winter night near the UNESCO World Heritage site of Itsukushimajinja shrine here on Jan. 14. The pyrotechnics were ...