3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (571+ words) SAITAMA - Large volumes of floodwater poured into the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, following heavy rain on September 7, prompting the massive underground flood-control facility known as the "Underground Temple" to go into operation. The Edogawa…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (669+ words) SHIZUOKA - A landslide struck a parking area at Mount Fuji's Fujinomiya fifth station in Shizuoka Prefecture shortly after midnight on September 9, sweeping up three parked vehicles but causing no injuries, prefectural authorities said. According to Shizuoka Prefecture, a worker at…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1100+ words) TOKYO - Heavy rain continued across wide areas of Japan on September 9 after downpours began the previous day, prompting Level 4 flood danger warnings along several rivers in Tokyo and, at one point, a Level 5 emergency safety alert in Nagoya, while forecasters…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1522+ words) FUKUSHIMA - A woman in her 60s died after her car was submerged in a flooded underpass in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, as record rainfall caused widespread flooding, landslides and transport disruption across Kanto and surrounding areas on September 7, with authorities warning that…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (637+ words) MIYAGI - An evacuation order has been issued for the entire city of Ishinomaki and parts of Marumori in Miyagi Prefecture as heavy rain caused by the autumn rain front disrupts transportation across the region, with a linear rainband potentially forming…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (587+ words) TOKYO - Rail operators are warning of widespread disruptions through the morning of September 7 as heavy rain threatens Shinkansen services and commuter lines, with some trains to be canceled, services reduced and the final departure time brought forward on part of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (980+ words) NAHA - Western and eastern Japan face a prolonged risk of heavy rain into next week as Typhoon No. 24, a tropical depression and the autumn rain front combine to bring increasingly unstable weather across a wide area, with the typhoon currently…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (824+ words) TOKYO - A tropical depression south of Japan is expected to develop into Typhoon No. 24 by September 1 and could approach the Japanese archipelago later in the week, raising the risk of renewed warning-level rainfall and widespread flooding in Hokuriku and heavy…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (635+ words) NAGOYA - Eleven passengers were rescued from an attraction at Legoland Japan in Nagoya on August 30 after a door failed to open, leaving them trapped for about 30 minutes, with no injuries or reports of illness. The Nagoya Fire Department said it…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (828+ words) FUKUI - Record rainfall caused 19 rivers to overflow across Fukui Prefecture, flooding roads and homes, triggering landslides and temporarily forcing authorities to issue the highest-level heavy rain emergency warning from early Sunday morning. A stationary front over the Hokuriku region brought…...