Flights across Japan were cancelled after a manga prediction sparked widespread fear among travellers. The manga, The Future I Saw by Ryo Tatsuki, was first published in 1999 and has gained attention ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Rumors of a 'disaster day' stemming from a manga and amplified by the internet passed without the catastrophe people had been ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors in recent weeks.

A senior ruling party lawmaker plans to step down from a key post in the upper house after coming under fire for describing ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

Over 1,600 quakes hit Japan's Tokara Islands, sparking fears after a manga predicted a megaquake on 5 July. Experts warn ...

A doomsday prediction of a megaquake and tsunami striking southern Japan this month could result in up to 560 billion yen ...

Japan has developed an undersea warning system that can detect earthquakes 20 seconds before they reach land, significantly ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Ryukyu Islands, Japan at 0507 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for ...

Steve Huen Kwok-chuen, executive director of EGL Tours, said on Monday that rumours of a July 5 earthquake had earlier caused ...