The risk of developing metabolic syndrome is 1.29 times higher for men whose homes were destroyed by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, a survey by Tohoku University says. "It may be because such people go out less frequently than before they moved into temporary ...
Yuta Sasaki threw three touchdown passes in the first half as the Waseda University Big Bears routed the Tohoku University Hornets 47-2 on Sunday at Amino Vital Field in Chofu, Tokyo, in the Eastern Japan Championship. The Big Bears earned a berth in the Koshien ...
Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science has released a report analyzing major tsunamis across the globe over the past 400 years in a bid to raise awareness about tsunami hazards. The report, published late last month ahead of the first World Tsunami Awareness ...
Scientists are looking to put a new kind of dog into the fight to rescue survivors of future disasters: a canine strapped into a high-tech vest that will allow it to function somewhat like a robot. The combination of a dog's acute sense of smell ...
Only 8 percent of coastal hospitals thought at risk from the dreaded Nankai Trough earthquake have plans in place to arrange for external assistance, a study says.
A team of researchers from Tohoku University has developed a new method to detect breast cancer by combining a mammogram with an ultrasound in a procedure that appears to be more accurate than mammogram testing alone. The team, lead by Noriaki Ohuchi, a professor at ...
Fed up with a litany of poor behavior by drunken students, Tohoku University in Miyagi Prefecture has decided to take the unusually harsh step of evicting all 105 residents from a school dorm by the end of September.
In the three years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, a survey finds that a large percentage of municipalities across the country still have not taken steps to ensure enough food or fuel to operate for more than a day if another serious earthquake ...
"Resilience" is a hot topic these days — not in self-help books, but among policymakers worldwide. As governments become convinced that climate change is a real threat, they are taking steps to ensure communities can bounce back from the increasing impact of floods, storms, ...
