He’s 23-year-old Roki Sasaki and he comes from Rikuzentakata, a small coastal city on the northeast coast of Japan.

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru Strait near the southern tip of Hokkaido. In Part 3 of my travelogue, I’ll ...

For the Onagawa No. 2 reactor, Tohoku Electric in 2013 began upgrading its safety, including tsunami risk estimates and anti-quake measures. It also built an anti-tsunami wall extending up to 29 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese nuclear reactor which survived a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged ... power in early November, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co.

A huge earthquake and tsunami will someday hit the Pacific Northwest. Predictions of the "Big One" are terrifying, and the government is not prepared.

The aftermath of a tsunami in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture two days after the Tohoku disaster.Itsuo Inouye ... Tobin and other researchers are working to map the fault's structure.

That magnitude 9 event, called the Tohoku earthquake, also came from a subduction zone. It generated a tsunami that reached ... researchers are working to map the fault's structure.