Japan Incident Tracker
What actually happens in Japan — risk profile → All of Asia → Get alerts for Japan
Every incident recorded in Japan — natural disasters, accidents, fires, collapses, blasts and outbreaks — tracked live and given its own detailed report page.
Incidents in Japan Today
Recent incident records
Twelve-month trend
About Incidents & Disasters in Japan
Japan lies in Asia, with its capital at Tokyo. Historically the country is most affected by earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and volcanic eruptions. This page monitors Japan around the clock, plotting every detected incident on the map above and giving each one its own permanent record page.
Our monitoring for Japan combines twenty-four independent streams: the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, the United Nations' GDACS alert system, NASA EONET and NASA FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, US NWS severe-weather alerts, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT global news monitoring, the Wikipedia current-events record, UN OCHA ReliefWeb, moderated public reports — and our own rotating sweep of local media in local languages. That last piece is what lets us capture smaller local incidents — building collapses, blasts, road and rail accidents, fires and drownings — that single-source trackers miss entirely.
So far in 2026, 1,648 incidents have been recorded in Japan, including 12 rated severe or extreme. Counters update automatically as new events are detected.
Bookmark this page to follow the live situation in Japan, or explore other countries, the full A–Z of incident types and the deadliest incidents in history.
Breakdown by type
Historic disasters in Japan
Cities in Japan
Each city has its own live page covering everything within about 65 km.