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A lower house committee of Japan's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to help Tokyo Electric Power pay billions of dollars in compensation to those hurt by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, ensuring a law will soon be in place to guarantee the utility's survival and get aid to victims.

Tourists worldwide are showing support for the Japanese tourism industry, following the recent natural disasters that saw earthquake and tsunami devastating country?s coastal areas in March.

Asian shares edged higher on Tuesday, bouncing back from a slide the previous day, after U.S. stocks posted only modest losses in reaction to the worsening deadlock in Washington over raising the debt limit and avoiding a technical bond default.

Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale rocked Japan's Northeastern Pacific coast of Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, but according to Japan Meteorological Agency there is no danger of a tsunami.

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People are using Twitter to express racist thoughts on the Japanese.

Watch the women's world cup final live online at 2:45 eastern standard time as the U.S. takes on Japan for FIFA's coveted title.

Panasonic may build homes with energy enhancing devices on its former factory sites post the devastating Japan quake that cut power supplies and wreaked widespread havoc in the nation.

When will the next generation of Apple iPhone - iPhone5 - be launched? Well, there have been a lot of speculations regarding that and many others are surfacing every other day. As per a Chinese website, Apple has been delaying the launch of iPhone 5 due to the A5 chip overheating and not for Japan tsunami or the Verizon iPhone release.

A series of tsunamis might have submerged and later buried the ancient city of Olympia in Greece, a new research has revealed, contradicting earlier beliefs that earthquake destroyed the city in 551 AD.

Four months after one of the greatest catastrophes his country has ever suffered, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he wants to see a nuclear-free Japan.

According to a research published online on July 10 in the journal Natural Geoscience, an ancient 56 million-year-old landscape has been found submerged beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Orkney-Shetland Islands and is being likened to the mysterious lost city of Atlantis.

Yet another massive earthquake of a 7.3 magnitude jolted Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday that triggered a brief tsunami warning for the area, which is still recovering from the March 11th earthquake and resulting tsunami that destroyed houses, power and swept away whole towns.

Four nuclear reactors in Japan, Israel and Scotland were forced to shutdown due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish, which clogged the seawater cooling system of the plants.

A Tsunami with waves 10 centimeters high hit the northeastern coastline of the country on Sunday after a 7.3 magnitude quake struck, prompting officials to warn residents to evacuate for about two hours.

A major 7.1 -magnitude earthquake struck off the Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday and the quake has triggered a small tsunami which has reached the Pacific coast of northern Japan.

A massive earthquake struck Japan on Sunday (late Saturday EST), setting off concerns of a new nuclear problem cropping up, and triggering a tsunami warning across the recovering nation.

A massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 rocked Japan's northeastern coast on today, prompting a tsunami warning for the battered nation. Japan was hit by a lethal tsunami four months ago and is still recovering.

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A survey of four locations in Fukushima city, outside the nuclear evacuation zone, has showed soil radiation above levels that has prompted evacuation of pregnant women and children from the city.

A tsunami warning issued for New Zealand following a magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck in the Pacific Ocean northeast of the country has been canceled, but local officials are still urging caution in the coastal areas.