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RAINY SEASON

JAPAN
May 28, 2018
Japan declares early start of rainy season in northern Kyushu and Shikoku
The rainy season appears to have begun in northern Kyushu and Shikoku, the Meteorological Agency announced Monday.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 9, 2017
Rain rain, go away
'Well ... that was officially the worst summer ever.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 8, 2017
Jousting in Meguro Station
'Sometimes I feel as if I'm in a jousting tournament in Japan.'
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jul 1, 2017
Questionable logic
'It's raining. You don't have an umbrella?'
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2017
Rainy season begins in western, central and eastern Japan
The rainy season appears to have started in wide swaths of eastern, central and western Japan, the weather agency said Wednesday, warning of downpours and natural disasters during the roughly six-week period.
JAPAN
May 13, 2017
Rainy season starts in Okinawa and Amami
The rainy season appears to have started in Okinawa and Amami, the Meteorological Agency said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2016
Rainy season likely over in Tokyo region, Meteorological Agency says
The rainy season is believed to be over in the Kanto-Koshin region of eastern Japan that includes Tokyo, the weather agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jul 18, 2016
Weather agency says rainy season over in western and central Japan
The rainy season appears to be over in western and central Japan as well as Kyushu, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2016
Rainy season underway in central, western Japan
The rainy season is underway in central and western Japan, the weather agency said Sunday, warning of landslides in quake-hit Kyushu.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2015
Rainy season declared over throughout Japan
The rainy season appears to be over in Japan's two remaining regions to the southwest and northeast, the weather agency said on Wednesday, declaring an end to the early summer wet period throughout the archipelago.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2015
Rainy season in southwestern Japan arouses volcanic mud flow fears
The rainy season has started in southwestern Japan, the Meteorological Agency said Tuesday, arousing concern of volcanic mud flows on Kuchinoerabu Island where Mount Shindake erupted late last week.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 30, 2014
Rains complicating delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa
The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centers built as donors rush to isolate people infected with the deadly Ebola virus and stop its rapid spread, U.S. officials said.
JAPAN
Jul 13, 2014
Abnormally long rainy season ends in Amami
The rainy season has ended in the Amami region off Kyushu, the Meteoroligical Agency said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 6, 2013
Heat wave marks end of rainy season in Tokyo
A heat wave enveloped much of Japan on Saturday, sending temperatures soaring beyond 30 degrees in more than 300 places nationwide, the Meteorological Agency reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 22, 2010
For when raindrops keep falling on our heads
The tsuyu season is no fun in Japan but don't let it rain your parade.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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