Two of them were discovered near the location where the Daisan Kuni Maru was hit by the tsunami. The first basement floor of the Miyagi prefectural police headquarters in Sendai has a room lined ...

The Japanese coast guard has released previously unseen video of automobiles and planes being swept away by the March 11 tsunami that hit Sendai airport and port towns across northern Japan.

On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. In 2004, ...

Tarmac, parking lot and surrounding area are covered with mud and debris carried by tsunami at Sendai Airport in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off ...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan has more than 400 small, inhabited islands that are uniquely exposed to the risks of natural ...

Yuzuru Hanyu says the desire to support his native northeastern Japan in its recovery from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami ...

Those age 65 and older account for 43.9% of the residents in such housing, 18.7 percentage points higher than the ratio of ...

Sendai City in northeastern Japan is hosting a three-day event where experts on disaster preparedness and risk reduction are ...

Sendai’s population over the last 10 years has increased by close to 40,000, or 3.9 percent. Of that number, 31,800 were people who moved to the Miyagi capital from elsewhere.

Here we introduce our study on paleotsunamis using a peeled sample display of the tsunami deposit in the Sendai Plain. A volcanic ash layer was used as a timeline for local geology. Large-scale ...