TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate Friday because of the risk of flooding and mudslides from a powerful typhoon approaching in the Pacific Ocean.

After Typhoon Ampil caused power blackouts in ... All the high-speed "Shinkansen" bullet train services between Tokyo and Japan's industrial heartland of Nagoya are also cancelled.

Typhoon No. 7 continued to move northward toward Japan on Aug. 14, threatening to lash the Ogasawara islands south of Tokyo from the evening. The strong forces of the typhoon are expected to ...

southwest of Tokyo. The typhoon, which followed closely on the heels of Typhoon No. 6 during Japan's peak Obon holiday season, lashed wide swathes of central and western Japan with heavy rains and ...

TOKYO (AFP): One person was reportedly killed and hundreds of thousands were without electricity in southern Japan on Wednesday (Aug 2) as a typhoon appproached packing powerful winds and lashing ...

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this month serves as a ... released a report showing that the number of typhoons hitting Tokyo has risen 1.5 times over the last four decades.

When Typhoon Faxai hit the Tokyo region from Sunday night through Monday morning, it became the strongest storm to make landfall in east Japan in the last 30 years.

TOKYO, Japan -- A powerful typhoon has made landfall near Chiba city, east of the Japanese capital Tokyo, on Friday morning, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. Typhoon Mawar, named for a ...

TOKYO, October 14. /TASS/. At least 40 people became victims of the Hagibis typhoon, which hit the central and eastern regions of Japan over the weekend, 16 are reported missing, the NHK Channel ...

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.