Whither Japan's rice crop: Dining table or cattle trough? Rice shortages rocked Japan this year, revealing a government policy that led to more of the grain being grown for animal feed. Farmers ...

The lifting of the Nankai Trough megaquake advisory came after a ... a higher-level “alert” becomes necessary. On Aug. 8, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued the first-ever megaquake ...

But experts were put on heightened alert because of where the epicentre sat - at the edge of the Nankai Trough, an area of seismic activity which stretches along Japan's Pacific coast. The plate ...

The Cabinet Office on Friday released improved public relations measures regarding the government's emergency alert system for a megaquake that may occur in the Nankai Trough off the country's ...

That was the Ansei-Tokai Earthquake of 1854 that originated in the Nankai Trough in the Pacific ... on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.