Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench — seven kilometres below sea level — lie hidden clues about some of the most powerful earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth. From September to ...

An ambitious project to combat global warming is planned in Chiba Prefecture, which would collect carbon dioxide emitted from factories in the prefecture along Tokyo Bay for storage deep under the ...

Beijing is operating without permission. Tokyo must act.

Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the director of a government innovation program said Thursday. Earlier this week ...

TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -China has begun construction of a new structure in waters between China and Japan in the disputed East China Sea, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, adding it has ...

Deep beneath the North Sea, researchers have mapped giant buried mounds and "sinkites" that turn a basic rule of geology on ...

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110), left, and USS Sterett (DDG-104), right, maneuvers with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) while ...

Russia and Japan dispute ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands, also known as the Northern Territories.