The joint Rapid Response Team simulation drill—involving the Foreign Ministry, related government ministries, and diplomatic ...

Emergency workers attempting to rescue survivors after a recent earthquake in Kyushu, Japan, also had to cope with extreme summer heat. Extreme heat affects almost every aspect of an emergency ...

Several people are dead and dozens unaccounted for Tuesday after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked the city of Kumamoto, in southern Japan, according to police and the country’s meteorological agency ...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan – an island nation that sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates, the constantly-shifting slabs of ...