A Japanese utility agreed Monday to shutter three nuclear reactors at a coastal power plant while it builds a seawall and improves other tsunami defenses there. Chubu Electric Power Co. acted at a ...

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka Prefecture--Construction is complete on one of the biggest breakwaters in Japan, a massive seawall built alongside coastal areas here to prevent flooding in the event of a tsunami.

The engineers behind the airport knew it was ‘slightly sinking’ but believed that it would settle and stabilise at around 13 ...

The seawall is so massive and overwhelming that ... by waves more than 10 meters high when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the coast of the Tohoku region on March 11 ...

A seawall was then built and the rock consolidated ... Kansai has served its purpose and continues to connect Osaka, Japan's ...

In the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese government launched several reconstruction projects to rebuild the region devastated by the disaster. Part of the plan includes ...

Kansai International Airport in Japan, which has sunk by dozens of feet ... which is the minimum height needed to prevent flooding if the seawall were breached. However, within just six years ...