This is a potentially catastrophic disaster and the images of destruction and flooding coming out of Japan are simply heartbreaking.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

The large subduction zone earthquakes are responsible for most of the ocean-wide tsunamis, such as the recent tsunami in Japan.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

He was appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, the leader of the occupation forces that would rule Japan.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be shut off at the Tokyo Tower in Japan.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Mister Kan also said the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power center is the worst Japan has ever faced.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

One year after the bombs were dropped on Japan, he received the Presidential Medal of Merit for his work.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

In Japan,the shibori method involves tieing cloth in different ways so that some areas of it receive the dye.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

This victory gave Japan control over the economy of the southern part of what was then called Manchuria, in northeastern China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He said Japan's alliance with the United States will remain what he called the "foundation" of his government's diplomacy.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The Institute of International Education in New York says last year's top five were India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

The other five countries that signed the treaty were Belgium, Japan,South Africa, the Soviet Union and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.03