A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating ...

A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating ...

During that time, the government struggled to deal with the major earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan in 2011 and ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan's Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn't detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more were found ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency is warning people to prepare for powerful winds as Typhoon No. 11 is expected to approach remote islands in Okinawa Prefecture on the evening of Sept. 3.

OKINAWA, Okinawa Prefecture—The apparent hush-up of another suspected sex crime by a U.S. serviceman in Okinawa Prefecture has stoked furor in Japan. It appears that while the incident went ...

Since January of 1700, pressure has been building beneath the waters of the Pacific. Off the coast of Oregon and Washington, several tectonic plates have been sliding under the plate beneath the ...

according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Center. No tsunami warnings are currently in effect as a result of the quakes. The largest of the quakes, which registered at 5.0 magnitude, struck about ...

Marine Corps' Unmanned 'Narco-Boat' Is Now Plying the Waters Around Okinawa An Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel stands by at the Del Mar Boat Basin as part of Project Convergence Capstone Four, Feb ...