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A strong storm lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds Thursday, causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the length of the archipelago and raised concerns of ...
Mie sees heavy rainfall while Kanto is on alert. Saturday 31 August 2024 11:30, Shahana Yasmin. A Level 4 warning for heavy rainfall has been announced in Mie Prefecture, and the Kanto region is ...
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 ...
Authorities there warned of possible landslides and rivers bursting their banks due to the heavy rain. Shizuoka, a major city in central Japan, has seen more than 500 millimetres of rain in the ...
Japan is the latest country to be hit by unusually heavy rain in various parts of the world in recent days that has raised new fears of the pace of climate change.
Multiple areas saw their greatest one-hour and three-day rainfall totals on record. [7] Some areas were hit by more than 1,000 mm (39 in) of rain, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to issue emergency heavy rain warnings [note 1] for eight prefectures: Okayama, Hiroshima, Tottori, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Hyogo, and Kyoto.
At least 100,000 homes are without power, and more than 237,000 individuals have been forced from their homes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued purple heavy rain—the second highest level on a four-tier scale—and landslide warnings for parts of Kyoto Prefecture in Kansai region and Iwate Prefecture in Tōhoku region as of late ...
Rounds of heavy rain continue to overwhelm parts of Japan as swollen rivers and waterlogged fields lead to widespread flooding and evacuations. Heavy rain fell from Wednesday into Thursday across ...