The rapidly aging U.S. demographic—the 'Silver Tsunami'—will be a persistent headwind for residential real estate, fiscal ...

Recent tsunami alerts in Japan have revealed how quickly nature's power can strike, even after the 2011 disaster. In 2025, ...

With magnitudes of 7.7 and 6.4, two earthquakes struck different parts of Indonesia on the same day. Authorities have since ...

Sachie Mikawa, who grew up in Japan before moving to the US, said she has been left “heartbroken” after finding the Bach Stradivarius trumpet missing from Rotunda Theatre at George Heriot’s School.

When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed struck Japan's north-eastern coast in March 2011, entire towns were swept away, nearly 20,000 people were killed or went ...

Former BOJ official Atsushi Takeuchi warns of more US-Japan yen interventions, as Bitcoin dipped to $63,000 during coordinated currency market ...

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that rattled Japan's Kumamoto prefecture in July 2026 killed dozens and caused widespread damage ...

The U.S. Treasury bought ⁠yen ⁠on Friday to support the battered Japanese ⁠currency, the Financial Times reported, marking Washington's first yen-buying intervention with Tokyo in more than a ​decade ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at ...

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 13 people near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto and rescuers are frantically searching for survivors trapped beneath the rubble, Prime Minister Sanae ...

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, ...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan, which sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates.