Rescuers combed the debris-strewn banks of a river in central Japan on Monday, searching for drowning victims after homes were swept away in flooding ... affected by the recent earthquake, dirty ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said Shanshan was weakening, but another storm was developing near the Philippines, which could grow into a typhoon. Get the latest news and more great videos at ...

People can visit the flood protection facility in Kasukabe, which safeguards Tokyo and has shafts large enough to fit the ...

The flooding from the recent rainfall has overwhelmed emergency shelters housing victims of the 1 January earthquake, NHK Japan reported. As of Monday afternoon, 3,700 households in Ishikawa ...

About 20 percent of Japan’s population resides in areas that are at risk of flooding when heavy rain causes rivers to overflow, according to a recent Asahi Shimbun analysis. The number has ...

Yu Fukuda, 67, who runs a fish farm and adjoining restaurant in the resort town of Yufu in Oita prefecture said she arrived on Friday morning to find flood ... latest harsh weather system to hit ...

Heavy rain that triggered floods and landslides on the Noto Peninsula recovering ... had died and six were "in a state of cardio-respiratory arrest", a term used in Japan before a feared death can be ...

Bengaluru can take cues from Japan’s underground flood tunnels, China’s sponge cities, to tackle its recurring flood woes, an ...

"I think what happened with (the recent floods) ... is that it's so rare — a one in 150- to 200-year event — that even if the weather models capture it, there's a reasonable degree of ...