Japan West Coast

A suspected North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired on Thursday afternoon landed within Japan's exclusive economic zone, west of the country's north coast, the government said.

An underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted Saturday with a stunning blast, sending tsunami waves onto nearby Tonga and to the north in Japan, with warnings of dangerous ocean surges issued as far away as the US West Coast.

Three more empty boats were found along Japan's west coast on Thursday, a day when the snow and the rain made sure the temperature never really rose above freezing. Two bodies reduced to skeletons were found near one, which was upturned on the shore near the city of Oga.

North Korea has fired two surface-to-air missiles off its west coast, South Korea said today, with the latest in a string of short-range firings by the North coming during a visit to the region by the U.S. defense secretary.

McDonald's in Japan has revealed that it is having to ration french fries, despite more than 1,000 tonnes of potatoes being airlifted, as eateries grapple with a crippling chip shortage.Industrial disputes on the United States West Coast are crimping...

Typhoon Halong killed one person in Japan on Sunday and injured 33, media said, as authorities ordered 1.6 million people out of the path of the storm that battered the west of the country with heavy rain and wind.

At least six crew members of a boat were detained and seven tonnes of red sanders worth Rs.3.5 crore were seized off Haldia coast in West Bengal, the Coast Guard said on Monday

Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet (40 meters) to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii as soon as this winter, with other pieces reaching parts of the West Coast in 2013 and 2014, experts say. Debris from the tsunami initia...

A suspected North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired on Thursday afternoon landed within Japan's exclusive economic zone, west of the country's north coast, the government said.

An underwater volcano in the South Pacific erupted Saturday with a stunning blast, sending tsunami waves onto nearby Tonga and to the north in Japan, with warnings of dangerous ocean surges issued as far away as the US West Coast.

Three more empty boats were found along Japan's west coast on Thursday, a day when the snow and the rain made sure the temperature never really rose above freezing. Two bodies reduced to skeletons were found near one, which was upturned on the shore near the city of Oga.

North Korea has fired two surface-to-air missiles off its west coast, South Korea said today, with the latest in a string of short-range firings by the North coming during a visit to the region by the U.S. defense secretary.

McDonald's in Japan has revealed that it is having to ration french fries, despite more than 1,000 tonnes of potatoes being airlifted, as eateries grapple with a crippling chip shortage.Industrial disputes on the United States West Coast are crimping...

Typhoon Halong killed one person in Japan on Sunday and injured 33, media said, as authorities ordered 1.6 million people out of the path of the storm that battered the west of the country with heavy rain and wind.

At least six crew members of a boat were detained and seven tonnes of red sanders worth Rs.3.5 crore were seized off Haldia coast in West Bengal, the Coast Guard said on Monday

Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet (40 meters) to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii as soon as this winter, with other pieces reaching parts of the West Coast in 2013 and 2014, experts say. Debris from the tsunami initia...