Japan often experiences periods of extreme rainfall, and damage can be extensive. But accurately predicting the formation and path of these bands of heavy rain clouds is difficult. They can bring ...

Japan has entered a season that calls for precautions against heavy rains. Everyone should check ... to work out hazard maps for a similar disaster. Only 10 percent of them, however, had drawn ...

Over the past week, torrential rains have devastated Japan, leaving 72 people dead and ... Yokota says that on July 3, the day before a heavy rain emergency warning was issued for the area ...

Japan’s weather agency this week issued its highest emergency alert for heavy rain for Sakata and Yuza in Yamagata prefecture. It later downgraded the warning by one notch in the country’s ...

Rescue workers in Japan searched Monday for three people who went missing in or near rivers swollen by heavy rains last week that left one person dead and dozens injured. A man in his 60s who ...