Shoppers emptied store shelves, traffic snarled after stoplights lost power and drivers waited in long lines to buy gasoline in a new wave of anxiety Friday after a magnitude 7.1 aftershock struck ...

Power losses on March 12 indicated in red. Image courtesy NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 decimated villages along the ...

The power outage in Fukushima comes amid a heatwave that has swept across Japan. On July 3, Tokyo marked its record ninth consecutive "extremely hot day" with the mercury hitting well above 95 ...

Japan’s government is alerting people in the Tokyo region they may face blackouts as power runs short after several coal-fired plants temporarily stopped generating electricity following an ...