Raging Australian fires hit Sydney suburbs amid 'worst conditions on record'
Bushfires raging across eastern Australia singed Sydney's suburbs on Tuesday, with firefighters scrambling planes and helicopters to douse a built-up neighborhood with water and red retardant. Experts have described the conditions as the worst on record, as spring temperatures climbed toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 ...
A month after Typhoon Hagibis roared through central and eastern Japan, friends, family members and neighbors mourned the victims of the powerful storm, which claimed at least 90 lives and flooded tens of thousands of homes. The typhoon made landfall on Honshu on Oct. 12, ...
A month after Typhoon Hagibis, volunteers, local officials and SDF tackling mountains of waste
The SDF is working to coordinate disaster waste and rubble removal efforts through officers dispatched to municipalities affected by the 19th named storm of the season.
Japan's NTT to invest ¥600 billion in electricity sector over six years
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. plans to invest ¥600 billion in its electricity business over six years through fiscal 2025, it has been learned. The program will be undertaken mainly by subsidiary NTT Anode Energy Corp., which was established in June, sources said. The major telecommunications ...
Staffers at the prefecture’s Multicultural Counseling Center offered telephone consultation services to residents in languages including English, Chinese, Tagalog and Portuguese, after Typhoon Hagibis tore through the area.
Merely calling the Trump administration's decision "regrettable" is not enough.
Abe tells ministers to compile economic package with priority on typhoon-hit areas of Japan
The package, expected to be worth a few trillion yen, is the first in three years and will likely focus on funding efforts to recover from this year’s natural disasters.
Time for a national volunteer registry
Each community has its own registration process, cutting into time that could be used for doing the actual volunteer work.
The right way to finance disaster recovery
On World Tsunami Day, Japanese high school students at U.N. share lessons learned from disasters
Two Japanese high school students stressed on Tuesday the importance of sharing lessons learned from past disasters at a panel discussion to mark World Tsunami Awareness Day, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The two students from Sapporo, who experienced a powerful earthquake ...
As natural disasters strike Japan with increasing frequency, it's time to raise the standards of the nation's evacuation centers.
Typhoon Hagibis shows challenges of evacuating Fukushima nursing homes in disasters
Powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which ripped through Japan on Oct. 12 and brought flooding and landslides to Fukushima Prefecture, has left at least 27 senior group homes and nursing homes in the area damaged or flooded. As of Oct. 15, there were no reports of deaths ...
