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.

Typhoon No. 7 continued to move northward toward Japan on Aug. 14, threatening to lash the Ogasawara islands south of Tokyo from the evening. The strong forces of the typhoon are expected to ...

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this month serves as a warning that there could be worse to come. Two people died, four remain missing and at least 100 were injured in what first appeared to ...

Approaching Typhoon No. 10 is likely to cause severe disruptions to Shinkansen services when it makes landfall around Aug. 27, train operators said. At noon on Aug. 24, it was moving near the ...

Typhoon Hagibis, one of the strongest in Japan's history, left a trail of destruction in the center and the north of the country. It dumped unprecedented amounts of rain over a wide area, forcing ...

TOKYO (AFP): One person was reportedly killed and hundreds of thousands were without electricity in southern Japan on Wednesday (Aug 2) as a typhoon appproached packing powerful winds and lashing ...

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 ...

Haruka Nuga, video journalist; Kaori Hitomi, senior producer; and Shuji Kajiyama, photo editor, Tokyo; Penny Yi Wang, digital producer, Bangkok; and Nadia Ahmed, social media editor, Cairo, for ...

Kyocera’s 13.7 MW floating project at the Yamakura Dam was damaged by 120mph winds the typhoon brought to the coastal city of Chiba. Firefighters said the blaze may have been generated by the ...

Sompo Japan, the Japanese insurance arm of Sompo Holdings, has now successfully secured the targeted $150 million in ...