Record rainfall led to tragic consequences in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, where six people died, and ten are missing. The floods and landslides resulted from intense rainfall that began on ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy could lose as much as $1.81 trillion in ... pressures and updated terrain and ground data which have expanded anticipated flood areas, the Cabinet Office report ...

flooding and fires. The destruction would cause damage worth £1.44trillion (214.2trillion yen) and create 12.3million evacuees. That is the equivalent of displacing 10 per cent of the Japanese ...

TOKYO — Heavy rain hit northern Japan Thursday, triggering floods and landslides, disrupting transportation systems and forcing hundreds of residents to take shelter at safer grounds.

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Japan is assessing the damage caused by floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain. At least 155 people are now known to have died in the west of the country, the government says ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Now, the same central Japan area has been hit by torrential downpours, with rivers bursting their banks and hillsides crumbling. Floods and mudslides across the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture ...