Heavy rain soaked portions of the Kyushu, Chugoku and Shikoku regions in western Japan, with the city of Matsuyama, in Ehime Prefecture, issuing the highest-level alert and urging nearly 190,000 ...

Record rainfall has brought deadly flooding and landslides to a coastal region of Japan still recovering from ... One person was killed in the city of Suzu after their home was swallowed by ...

Tokyo — A powerful storm lashed southern Japan with torrential ... for 2-3 feet of rain to fall in some places on the island. Shanshan ripped through downtown Miyazaki city, knocking down ...

TOKYO -- The first rain fell March 5 since massive forest fires broke out Feb. 26 in the northeastern Japan city of Ofunato, ...

People are seen holding umbrellas amid heavy rain in the city ... Kentaro Araki of the Japan Meteorological Agency's Meteorological Research Institute is seen in this photo provided by the individual.

“I’ve been hoping for rain. I hope the fire will be brought under control,” said a 78-year-old man who was staying at the Sanriku community centre in the city told The Japan News. The record ...

TOKYO — A typhoon lashed southern Japan with torrential ... Ahead of the typhoon’s arrival, heavy rain caused a landslide that buried a house in the central city of Gamagori, killing three ...

TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Record rains in central Japan's Noto region ... Sign up here. Hourly rainfall hit record 121 mm (4.8 inches) on Saturday morning in Wajima, while neighbouring Suzu ...

The warm, humid air around the typhoon and a separate high-pressure system caused heavy rain in the central Japanese city of Gamagori, where a landslide buried a house with five people inside.