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19 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: July 30, 2026.
Rescuers drilled through collapsed concrete for a third day after Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake, while nearly 19,000 homes sat without power and a heatstroke alert went out over the shelters.
Kobe University researchers bounced seismic waves through the seafloor beneath Japan's Kikai caldera and found a magma reservoir sitting in exactly the chamber that emptied 7,300 years ago — supplied by a new source.
Kyoto University researchers say fossils from Oita prefecture belong to a new genus, only the sixth ever described in the giant salamander family, and suspect other museum specimens have been misfiled for years.
The Nikkei 225 sank more than 4% and briefly fell over 6%, dragged down by memory-chip maker Kioxia, as investors around the world questioned whether the AI boom's sky-high valuations can hold.
Bills clearing parliament Friday would allow imperial women to remain royals after marrying commoners and let male descendants of former branches rejoin through adoption, a limited fix for a shrinking family that still bars women from the throne.
Super Typhoon Bavi, more than 1,000 kilometers across, forced evacuations along Taiwan's mountainous east as China and Japan braced and rescuers in southern China still dug through the wreckage of a storm that killed 39.
The quake off Iwate Prefecture rattled buildings as far as Tokyo and registered violent shaking in Aomori, but officials issued no tsunami warning.
WatchThe 20-year-old vanished near Kyoto during a family vacation after turning off his phone's location. A volunteer team found his body Saturday in rugged terrain that more than 100 police officers had failed to search successfully.
The storm made landfall at typhoon strength in Wakayama before barreling into the Tokyo region, where authorities urged more than 1.6 million people to evacuate amid record rainfall, landslides and power outages.
Mysterious red auroras extended 500-800 kilometers above Earth during moderate geomagnetic storms, suggesting hidden solar activity may be stronger than realized.
Reikado Hall near Hiroshima burned down Wednesday morning, but spiritual leaders successfully relocated the ancient flame to safety.
The ancient flame, which spiritual leaders say has burned continuously for over a millennium, was successfully rescued and moved to a different site.
About 300 troops and two ScanEagle II surveillance drones deployed across Ishigaki, Yonaguni and Miyakojima through May 22 in what defense analysts call a triple signal — to Tokyo's own public, to Washington, and to Beijing.
Japanese researchers develop revolutionary method to identify complex quantum entangled states in single measurements, advancing quantum computing and teleportation.
Japanese scientists develop revolutionary method to identify multi-photon quantum entanglement in single measurement, advancing quantum computing.
Japanese researchers develop revolutionary method to instantly identify elusive quantum states that could unlock faster quantum communication and teleportation.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's cabinet approved Japan's most sweeping defense export policy change since World War II, permitting sales of lethal weapons including warships, tanks, and missiles to approved nations. China expressed "serious concern."
WatchWaves up to 1.8 meters struck harbor towns; Japan’s seawall network credited with limiting inland damage near 2011 disaster zone.
The UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, and Canada signed a joint statement expressing readiness to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but diplomatic sources confirmed none will deploy naval vessels — a gesture that analysts called a face-saving move to placate an enraged Trump.