Parts of central and northern Japan received heavy rain Friday that was linked to the death of one person in Iwate Prefecture whose car was apparently swept away by a flooding river. The body of Yuki Ikeda, a 29-year-old construction worker from Miyako, was found ...
One person died after being swept away by a swollen river and six people, including some children, have been reported missing after heavy rain hit western Japan on Wednesday, officials said. More than 60,000 residents of Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures were temporarily advised to evacuate. In ...
Cherry trees reached full bloom in central Tokyo on Sunday, a day earlier than normal but two days later than last year, the Meteorological Agency said. The weather agency said about 80 percent of the ubiquitous someiyoshino variety cherry trees at Yasukuni Shrine in central ...
The Meteorological Agency plans to add alerts for long and slow seismic movements that affect skyscrapers to its emergency earthquake warning system for TVs and mobile phones, officials said Monday. The new feature, which the agency hopes to put into operation as early as fiscal ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted northeastern and eastern Japan on Thursday morning, the region hit by a more powerful quake two days ago, the Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued. No abnormalities were observed at two nuclear power plants ...
Typhoon Chaba is on course to make landfall in Hokuriku or Tohoku overnight on Wednesday, the weather agency has said. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of stormy conditions across much of eastern and western Japan, citing a risk of flooding along rivers and landslides in ...
September was one of the wettest and cloudiest months on record for large parts of the country, according to the Meteorological Agency, and local governments are warning that the lack of sunlight and damage from typhoons and heavy rains will likely affect agricultural output. The ...
Powerful Typhoon Lionrock lashed the Tohoku region late Tuesday afternoon, forcing transport services and schools to close down and residents to evacuate. The typhoon made landfall at Ofunato on the Sanriku coast of Iwate Prefecture shortly before 6 p.m. Later in the evening it was ...
Railway companies temporarily stopped trains and social media users were in a state of panic after the Meteorological Agency sent a false alarm of a magnitude-9 earthquake across wide parts of the Kanto region Monday afternoon. The agency issued an erroneous emergency earthquake alert to railway ...
The Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan had an explosive eruption early Tuesday, spewing volcanic ash 5,000 meters into the sky, the Meteorological Agency said. It is the first eruption projecting to such an altitude since August 2013 for the volcano within kilometers of downtown Kagoshima, ...
The rainy season appears to be over in western and central Japan as well as Kyushu, the Meteorological Agency said. The regions, which cover major cities including Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka, are now officially set to enter the hot and humid summer season, ...
Three people died and some 490 were taken to hospital due to heatstroke or heat exhaustion Thursday, a Kyodo News tally showed, as temperatures soared across much of Japan. Of 929 Meteorological Agency observation points nationwide, more than 400 logged highs of at least 30 ...
