Tepco on Monday discharged into the ocean filtered groundwater taken from wells around the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima No.

Fifteen people reported missing amid severe flooding in Ibaraki Prefecture last week have been located and are safe, local authorities said Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has hit in the Gulf of California.

More than 3,000 residents of Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, remained evacuated Sunday after floodwaters from unprecedented rainfall last week inundated vast stretches of residential areas and damaged cr

The Meteorological Agency issued a severe-weather warning for Miyagi Prefecture early Friday morning and warned of further mudslides and flooding across eastern Japan as rain clouds shifted north.

Typhoon Etau made landfall Wednesday morning on the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture. The weather agency warned of mudslides, flooding and high winds and waves.

“Abenomics” may have helped double stock prices and enabled companies like Toyota Motor Corp. to post record profits in Japan, but one segment of the economy remains behind: the poor.

LAS VEGAS – Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled the new Prius, its leading hybrid car, in Las Vegas on Tuesday, saying it will be 10 percent more fuel-efficient than existing comparable vehicles.

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – Federal regulators are pulling the plug on a five-year study of the risk of cancer in communities around six U.S. nuclear plants and a nuclear fuel site.

SENDAI – Residents of three Miyagi Prefecture towns selected as candidate sites for hosting a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility barred the entry of Environment Ministry officials seeking to