Thousands of people in Japan have been ordered to evacuate and hundreds of flights and trains have been cancelled as typhoon Ampil bears down on Tokyo. The widespread disruptions come as Japan is ...

TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate Friday because of the risk of flooding and ...

southwest of Tokyo. The typhoon, which followed closely on the heels of Typhoon No. 6 during Japan's peak Obon holiday season, lashed wide swathes of central and western Japan with heavy rains and ...

TOKYO: Severe tropical storm Ampil is expected to intensify into a typhoon as it nears eastern Japan on Friday (Aug 16), forcing cancellations of public transit services during the country’s ...

When Typhoon Ampil passed close to eastern Japan last week, many bullet train services were suspended, including an all-day halt of the busy Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Nagoya on Aug ...

Another sinkhole has since opened up nearby, and residents within a 650-foot radius had been evacuated, a spokesman said.

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this month serves as a ... released a report showing that the number of typhoons hitting Tokyo has risen 1.5 times over the last four decades.

When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, an upper 5 was registered in Tokyo’s 23 wards. When Typhoon No. 19 swept through eastern Japan in October 2019, many local ...

could hit Japan for the first time ever by the end of the century due to climate change. Organizers and government officials will be hoping it will be a quiet typhoon season during 2020 Tokyo ...

As if the country of Japan has had enough to deal with over the last several months, the country is now facing a powerful typhoon with winds reaching up to 130 miles per hour. Tokyo Electric Power ...