A small group of BYU nursing students traveled to Japan this summer with professor Ryan Rasmussen, graduate program coordinator Craig Nuttall and visiting faculty Hiromi Tobe to visit the Ishikawa ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- "'Muryou' means free of charge." This phrase, written in simple Japanese, appears on a card in a Japanese "karuta" card game created especially with disaster preparedness in mind.

While immediate damage appears limited, the bigger question now is whether this quake could be a precursor to something ...

TOKYO — The Japanese government said that much more needs to be done to prepare for a possible “megaquake” to reduce the feared death toll of up to 300,000 people. Quakes are extremely hard to predict ...

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurred off Sanriku near Japan’s northeast coast, leaving buildings in Tokyo shaking and panicked residents scurrying after a tsunami warning. But what happened? Is a ...