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

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 earthquake this year.

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 ...

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 ...

Three years after heavy flooding devastated western Japan, the aftereffects are still being felt, with over 1,000 residents still living in temporary housing in Hiroshima, Okayama and Ehime ...

TOKYO, July 6, 2020 (AFP): Tens of thousands of rescue workers in Japan on Monday combed through the wreckage of houses shattered by deadly floods and landslides in a desperate search for ...

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 ...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) and the Government of Japan have signed an agreement to support the implementation of the “Project for Strengthening Flood and Drought Risk Management in the Lower ...

Japan has provided over four million dollars to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on humanitarian grounds to improve water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure in the flood affected areas ...

The Government of Japan has approved a grant amounting to 18.5 million dollars for flood management project in Pakistan. A signing ceremony for exchange of notes and record of discussion between the ...