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Typhoon Hagibis approaches the Japanese archipelago on Thursday in this satellite photo. The Meteorological Agency is warning that the large and powerful storm will bring torrential rain and dangerous winds to central Japan over the weekend.

Massive Typhoon Hagibis bears down on central Japan

by Tomohiro Osaki

As a powerful typhoon threatened to make landfall in central or eastern Honshu over the weekend, railways and supermarkets announced plans to suspend or minimize operations for much of Saturday. In a statement Friday, the Meteorological Agency said Typhoon Hagibis, the 19th named storm of the ...

Residential areas flooded by the Chikuma River are shown in this bird's-eye view after Typhoon Hagibis tore through Nagano on Saturday.

At least 35 killed and 17 missing after Typhoon Hagibis tears through country, flooding rivers and submerging cities

by Satoshi Sugiyama

In the aftermath of the largest typhoon to hit Japan in decades, the nation on Sunday was still assessing the scope of the damage caused by the massive storm. Hagibis, the 19th named storm of the season, tore through Japan's main island of Honshu on Saturday and early Sunday packing winds of u...

Powerful Typhoon Hagibis tears through Tokyo region, killing two and prompting rare weather warnings

by Ryusei Takahashi

Record-breaking rainfall, strong winds and severe flooding struck areas from central to northern Japan on Saturday as Typhoon Hagibis made landfall on Shizuoka Prefecture's Izu Peninsula and directly hit Tokyo and its surrounding areas. At least two people were killed, nine were missing, and 8...

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake jolts Chiba-Tokyo area

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit the Kanto region around 6:22 p.m. on Saturday, recording a 4 on Japan's quake intensity scale of 7 in southern Chiba Prefecture and 3 in the 23 wards of central Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said. The epicenter was located off Chiba Prefecture. No tsunami warn...

An image captured by the Himawari-8 weather satellite shows Typhoon Hagibis located in the south of Japan as of 9 a.m. Wednesday.

‘Explosive’ Typhoon Hagibis has Tokyo area in its sights after rapidly gathering strength in Pacific

by Daniel Traylor

Typhoon Hagibis, which the U.S. military's forecasting agency has put on par with a Category 5 hurricane, is approaching Japan's main island of Honshu after a rapid intensification in the Pacific and could make a direct pass over the Kanto region this weekend. The storm, which tracked near the...