In a sobering revelation, Japan has updated its estimates regarding the potential fatalities from a catastrophic earthquake along the Nankai Trough, predicting that up to 298,000 individuals could ...

A research institute has released a 3-D geological map showing the underground structure of Tokyo's 23 wards designed ... who heads the Research Institute of Geology and Geoinformation at AIST.

“(The activity) has shifted to one of continuous eruptions,” said Setsuya Nakada, professor emeritus of volcanic geology at the University of Tokyo, who was aboard an Asahi Shimbun plane that ...