Japan issues highest-level rain warning as torrential rain slams Hokuriku
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest-level, Level 5 Emergency Warning for heavy rain in parts of Ishikawa ...
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Japan issues highest-level rain warning as torrential rain slams Tohoku
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its highest-Level 5 Emergency Warning for heavy rain in Ishikawa and Toyama pref...
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Typhoon Chan-hom makes historic landfall north of Tokyo
Typhoon Chan-hom made landfall in southern Ibaraki Prefecture on August 11 for the first time since the Japan Meteorolog...
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Landslide cuts off nearly 400 people in Nagano
390 people became stranded on August 9 after a landslide swept away a bridge on a road leading to a trailhead in Nagano ...
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Japanese gov. to boost aid for quake-hit Kumamoto
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae / We intend to designate this disaster as an “Extremely Severe Disaster” for reco...
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M7.1 earthquake jolts southwestern Japan
A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Kumamoto Prefecture with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. The Japan Meteorolo...
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Tokyo heatstroke cases hit record high as one person dies amid relentless heatwave
One died and 453 people were transported by ambulance due to heatstroke in Tokyo on July 22, as the capital endured thre...
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Couple found dead after landslide destroys home in Tochigi after record rainfall
A landslide triggered by rain occurred in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on the night of July 17.Authorit...
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Hillside collapses beneath apartment in Sendai, residents not ordered to evacuate
A resident in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture reported that the cliff below their apartment building was collapsing on Ju...
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Tokyo moves to lift 20-year ban on black bear hunting amid rising sightings
This is footage of an Asian black bear captured in Hinode Town, Tokyo, about 20 years ago.Although it was only about eig...
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