Three people were killed and three others are missing in flooding in southwest Japan caused by the region's "heaviest" rain ever. Rivers overflowed and hillsides collapsed as record amounts of ...

WAJIMA, Japan — Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams at work on Sunday in a remote peninsula already devastated by a major ...

Rescuers combed the debris-strewn banks of a river in central Japan on Monday, searching for drowning victims after homes ...

At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan, says the government. It is the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in ...

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A slow-moving tropical storm had a far-reaching impact in much of Japan on Friday, dumping heavy rain around Tokyo and flooding roads and riverside areas in the south. Flooding was reported in a ...

The research group analyzed health insurance claims data from three prefectures―Hiroshima, Okayama and Ehime―over a one-year period following the western Japan floods. The study examined the ...

As survivors and bereaved families remember the victims of last year’s floods, residents prepare for another potentially deadly rainy season. Recovery operations are underway after Japan’s ...

Tokyo: The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in southern Japan has risen to 15, media reported, as rescuers continued work to bring out isolated survivors. Raging rivers overflowing with ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Five million people were issued "rare weather warnings" in eastern Japan and 800,000 were advised to evacuate their homes as massive amounts of flooding tore up ...

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