Typhoon Tokage - "lizard" in Japanese - was the record 10th to hit Japan this year. Normally, about three make landfall during the typhoon season that usually ends in late October. Many people ...

Japan has been hit by one of its strongest typhoons in decades. Typhoon Shanshan made landfall at 08:00 local time on Wednesday (23:00 GMT) on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's major islands.

Japan has issued evacuation orders for nearly a million people in the path of Typhoon Shanshan, as it braces for what officials say could be one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region.

The typhoon, capable of inflicting extensive damage, is likely to hit a vast area spanning from Amami-Oshima island in Kagoshima Prefecture to western Japan, the agency said. Officials urged ...

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this ... in North Korea with a central pressure of 965hPa. It was the third typhoon to hit the nation in recorded history. A few days later, on September ...

while thousands cancelled hotel bookings in one of Japan's biggest holiday periods. Factory production was also hit when Typhoon Shanshan hit in the same month, forcing the cancellation of trains ...

People across Japan are counting the cost of one ... But it's been out of service since the typhoon. More than a dozen landslides hit the tracks, damaging the rails and sweeping sleepers into ...

Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Ito Naoki, and representatives from the Embassy of Japan, the International Organization for ...

15, and the Japan Meteorological Agency is ... The agency said the typhoon will still be very strong when it hits on Aug. 15. It projected heavy rainfall over mainly Pacific coastal areas from ...

TOKYO, October 14. /TASS/. At least 40 people became victims of the Hagibis typhoon, which hit the central and eastern regions of Japan over the weekend, 16 are reported missing, the NHK Channel ...

On track to hit the main island of Honshu early Tuesday ... their vacations and returned to cities Monday before the typhoon strikes. Japan Airlines said it cancelled 19 flights for Monday ...

TOKYO: Typhoon Bebinca is expected to approach Japan's southern island of Okinawa and the southwestern island region of Amami over the weekend, with the weather agency on Thursday (Sept 12 ...