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The mountainous terrain of Japan places it at risk for flooding and landslides. These climate events have killed hundreds of people, and expert analysis has stated global warming is a contributing cause. [4] The Kuma River basin had previously flooded in 1965. One of three major rapids in Japan, the Kuma is a 115-kilometer-long (71 mi) class A ...
Japan is regularly affected by natural disasters, with the country also being in the Ring of Fire.Two out of the five most expensive natural disasters in recent history have occurred in Japan, in 1995 (~6,500 deaths) and 2011 (~20,000 deaths) – the latter of which had also triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Here is the most recent satellite view of the severe tropical storm as it passes over Japan, via Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere.
Mabi, Kurashiki, Okayama In late June through mid-July 2018, successive heavy downpours in southwestern Japan resulted in widespread, devastating floods and mudflows.The event is officially referred to as Heisei san-jū-nen shichi-gatsu gōu (平成30年7月豪雨, "Heavy rain of July, Heisei 30") by the Japan Meteorological Agency. [1]
FUKUOKA/YUFU, Japan (Reuters) -Typhoon Shanshan soaked large swathes of Japan with torrential rain on Friday, prompting warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles from the storm's ...
Typhoon Shanshan, one of Japan's strongest typhoons in decades, dumped torrential rain across southern regions on August 29, with one person missing and authorities warning of life-threatening ...
58 km west of Hokkaidō, Sea of Japan: 225: 2018 Japan floods: Heavy Rain, Floods, Mudslide 28 Jun 2018 – 9 Jul 2018: Shikoku Western Honshu: Deadliest floods since the 1982 Nagasaki floods, more than 8 million were evacuated across 23 prefectures and 13 people reported missing 208 (Official) 1943 Hoteiza Theatre fire Fire 6 Mar 1943
Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the "cathedral" just north of Tokyo. The gushing water, captured by security cameras, was the rain that was ...