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This photo shows rescue workers outside a house that was hit by a landslide in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture on August 28, 2024. Four members of the same family were missing in Japan on August 28 ...
Heavy Rain, Landslide and Flood 20 Jun 1953: Kyushu Island, mainly, Kumamoto and Kitakyushu: Outburst and flooding of the dikes occurred in many rivers 992 (Official) 1957 Isahaya flood: Heavy Rain, Landslide and Flood 26 Jul 1957: Nagasaki Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture: 943 (Official) 1951 Typhoon Ruth: Heavy Rain, Tidal wave, Landslide and ...
The storm moved eastward through Japan today, and national broadcaster NHK reported record levels of rainfall, with the storm taking the roof off of several houses and flooding roads in the ...
Typhoon Lan was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck central Japan in mid-August 2023. The seventh named storm and fifth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season, Lan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east of Iwo Jima.
Typhoon Shanshan was a powerful tropical cyclone that moved through Japan in August 2024. The tenth named storm and fourth typhoon of the annual typhoon season, Shanshan was first noted near the Mariana Islands on August 20, with deep convection beginning to consolidate.
Torrential rain pounded southwestern Japan, triggering floods and mudslides and leaving two people dead and at least six others missing, officials said Monday. Rain falling in the regions of ...
A slow-moving tropical storm had a far-reaching impact in much of Japan on Friday, dumping heavy rain around Tokyo and flooding roads and riverside areas in the south. Flooding was reported in 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.