Geospatial Information Authority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And managers at japanese firms are investing in Robot Technology that could help at the fukushima plant and assist with reconstruction in the region. Prime minister shinzo abe has reiterated his commitment to rebuilding northeastern japan. People in the area are still trying to recover from the powerful earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear accident. Abe spoke on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the disaster. Translator tomorrow will mark the fourth anniversary of the great east japan earthquake. I would like to once again offer heartfelt condolences to those who perished. The Prime Mini...

As of March, the number of these symbols put on maps maintained by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan has surpassed 2,000 nationwide.

Jamie O'Brien took a crew to the Hanazono resort in Niseko, Japan, before touring the Hokkaido coast to find some freezing-cold waves.

The New Year's Day quake was a stark reminder of how Japan has been shaped by rumbling, grinding and often deadly convulsions and volcanic activity.

The other side of the coin is “land emergence”  -- or the gaining of dry land.  How does this happen?  Ask a geologist.  Continental masses rise up, coral islands and reefs accrete (gain) sand and expand their shores, oceanic volcanoes grow and poke their heads above the waters and river deltas build up through deposition…