Japan has witnessed record-breaking weather in the last ten days, with destructive and sometimes deadly consequences. Some places have been lashed with more than three times the average rainfall ...

Typhoon Hagibis, one of the strongest in Japan's history, left a trail of destruction in the center and the north of the country. It dumped unprecedented amounts of rain over a wide area ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency said such rainfall had never been seen before in the region. One woman who sought refuge at an evacuation centre said she had never imagined rain could be so powerful ...

Parts of western Japan hit by deadly floods and landslides are facing unprecedented danger as more downpours are expected, officials warn. "We've never experienced this kind of rain before," a ...