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 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 ...

In recent years, Japan has experienced unprecedented levels of heavy rainfall in certain parts of the country, which has occasionally led to floods and landslides that have resulted in casualties.

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 ...

Japan has seen unprecedented rainfall in parts of the country in recent years, with floods and landslides sometimes causing casualties.

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 ...

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 ...