developed into Typhoon No. 8 around 3 p.m. on Aug. 13. However, it is expected to have little impact on Japan. You can find the latest forecast map at the JMA website.

More than 800 flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of homes lost power as a slow-moving typhoon made landfall in western Japan early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue flood and ...

The Ofunato wildfire, in Iwate prefecture, has more than doubled in size in the past three days to become Japan’s largest for 33 years, and as of Sunday covered about 1,800 hectares (4,500 acres).

After Typhoon Ampil caused power blackouts in Japan, hundreds of flights were grounded and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in the eastern parts of the country on August 16. 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 ...

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Tokyo: A typhoon that blasted parts of Japan with more than 200kph winds moved out to sea on Saturday (Aug 17), mostly sparing the capital and allowing trains and some flights to resume.

The rain caused many rivers to overflow. Japan's land ministry says that by Tuesday morning, it had established that Typhoon Hagibis broke 66 levees on rivers across the country. NHK has learned ...

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.

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...