This is the first reactor barred in Japan under stricter safety protocols adopted after the Fukushima disaster.

Experts warned of powerful aftershocks in the days ahead as they puzzled over the forces that generated the magnitude-7.6 earthquake in the Noto region ... level on the Japanese scale.

Now, the same central Japan area has been hit by torrential downpours, with rivers bursting their banks and hillsides crumbling. Floods and mudslides across the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture ...

At least six people have been killed by flooding and landslides following record rainfall in the Noto region of Japan, an area still recovering from a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day.

according to the Japan Meteorological Agency as quoted by Kyodo. A series of strong quakes of up to 7.6 magnitude rattled the Noto region and its vicinity and triggered a tsunami on January 1.

A powerful earthquake rocked the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture at around ... to evacuate amid urgent tsunami warnings in western Japan. The intensity of the quake was estimated at 7.6 ...

Muddy rivers ran high in Anamizu, a city on the Noto Peninsula, where damage from the January ... Military personnel have been sent to the Ishikawa region on the Sea of Japan coast to join rescue ...

TOKYO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Over 400 people remained evacuated in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture one month after record-breaking downpours caused floods and landslides in many parts of the Noto ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

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(Photo courtesy of Imperial Household Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's former Empress Michiko ... keeping in her thoughts the disaster-hit Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture, the Imperial ...