The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has called for continued caution over potential tremors and tsunamis despite a gradual ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 jolted Fukushima Prefecture and nearby areas early Thursday, the weather agency said. No tsunami warning has been issued. The 2:49 a.m. quake measured ...

Japan's weather officials caution that atmospheric conditions are expected to become extremely unstable in the Izu Islands ...

Record snowfall has hit the Tsugaru region of northern Japan's Aomori Prefecture, with snow reaching over 4.3 meters deep in ...

Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has signed an agreement with Kumamoto prefecture to further develop a programme ...

Japan is advancing its disaster preparedness with a new satellite-based programme designed to assess structural damage within ...

The average temperature is calculated by the Japan Meteorological Agency based on observations made from 15 locations that were chosen to minimize the effect of environmental changes due to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency has a unique seismic scale called shindo that measures the degree of shaking in the event of an earthquake. This set of numbers — ranging from 0 to 7 — is ...

according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. It said a linear precipitation zone may develop over the Izu Islands and the Tokai region through the morning of Sept. 7. Rainfall amounts expected ...

and the temperature is forecast to be higher than in average years,” a Japan Meteorological Agency official said. “We need to be more vigilant against the risk of heatstroke than in usual years." ...