Japan continued to battle its worst wildfire in half a century on Wednesday in a region hit by record-low rainfall, as wet weather gave hope for some relief. The blaze around the city of Ofunato in ...

Typhoon No. 7 is forecast to bring heavy rain and winds strong enough to overturn vehicles to eastern and northeastern Japan, especially in the Kanto region, on Aug. 16 and 17. The Japan ...

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this month serves as a warning that there could be worse to come. Two people died, four remain missing and at least 100 were injured in what first appeared to ...

As of Wednesday morning, 4,111 people had been evacuated from Ofunato, or about 13% of the city’s entire population.

TOKYO (AFP): An approaching typhoon battered communities along Japan's Pacific coast Monday (Aug 14) with heavy rain and crashing waves, prompting authorities to warn about landslides and flooding.

SHIZUOKA--Authorities said 63,000 households here in central Japan remained without running water on Sept. 25 after Typhoon No. 15 ... to dispatch a disaster relief operation team.

Typhoon Hagibis, one of the strongest in Japan's history, left a trail of destruction in the center and the north of the country. It dumped unprecedented amounts of rain over a wide area ...