Officials cautioned it was too early to say for sure the fire had stopped growing. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

Snow and slushy rain were forecast in Tokyo and mountainous areas in the southern Kanto region over the weekend of March 8-9.

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

The storm was centered hundreds of miles southeast of Tokyo and is expected to make a turn to the northwest, eventually impacting central and northern Japan. “Enhanced rain, winds and rough surf ...

TOKYO, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Steady rainfall on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in Ofunato City of Japan's Iwate Prefecture, local media reported.

Wet weather looked poised to offer relief Wednesday as Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century in a northern ...

Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second World War and is ...

Japanese weather officials say heavy snow will likely fall again in mountainous areas of the Kanto-Koshin region from Tuesday evening.

Online posts featuring false photos and misinformation about typhoons and heavy rain in summer gained so much attention on X that the Tokyo metropolitan government plans to strengthen ...