Japan Royal Couple Visits Quake-Stricken Region
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Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko  visited on Saturday a region of northern Japan hit by a deadly  earthquake last month, to speak with some of the thousands of  evacuees.
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The first Japanese princess to marry outside the royal family in 45 years said on Thursday she was a little bit anxious about starting life as a commoner, but her husband-to-be said he would help her cope.
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Readers report their experiences of the earthquakes and huge waves that have devastated parts of Asia.
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Strong aftershocks shook northern Japan on Sunday after the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 18 people and injured some 1,500 as houses collapsed, roads crumbled and rail tracks buckled.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Japan resumed full-scale rescue  efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the  area where the country's deadliest earthquake in nine years  killed at least 23 people and injured more than 2,000.
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Shaken by a string of deadly earthquakes and aftershocks, Japan is in the grips of an unlikely rescue saga. Rescue teams working in Nagaoka, one of the city&#39;s worst-hit by the initial earthquake on Saturday
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi headed to northern Japan to survey the damage wrought by the deadliest earthquakes to hit the country in nearly a decade as the death toll jumped to 31.
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Japan's capital has a 90 percent chance of being devastated by a major earthquake some time in the next 50 years, according to a study by a government panel.
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THE first Japanese princess to marry outside the Royal family in 45 years said yesterday she was anxious about starting life as a commoner, but her husband-to-be said he would help her cope.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi surveyed the earthquake damage in northern Japan on Tuesday, meeting people camped out in a high-school gymnasium after the nation&#39;s deadliest earthquakes in nearly a decade killed 31 people and injured as many as 2,900.
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TOKYO - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude 7.0 has jolted the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan. Japan&#39;s Meteorological Agency warned the quake could create a tidal wave off the eastern shores of the island.
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Japan&#39;s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited the historic University of Oxford on Monday during their three-day tour of Britain.
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Japan has resumed rescue efforts following the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years. Saturday&#39;s quake and its aftershocks left 24 people dead and over 2,000 injured.
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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has rocked northern Japan near the area where the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in years struck in October.
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unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister, but some small signs of normal life have returned to the quake-hit region. Minagawa, though they had detected no signs of life.
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NAGAOKA, JAPAN - An earthquake shook Japan on Wednesday as rescuers dug out members of a family buried alive during a weekend earthquake.