According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Shanshan had maximum ... A potentially more significant hazard facing Japan is flooding from heavy rainfall. While building codes mandate resilience ...

Japan’s brush with Typhoon Haishen this month serves as a warning that there could be worse to come. Two people died, four remain missing and at least 100 were injured in what first appeared to ...

Meteorologists warn that Typhoon No. 7 could reach the ... However, northern Japan remains under a heavy rain warning throughout the day. Up to 150 millimeters of rain is forecast for Hokkaido ...

Japan's growth slowed in the third ... But this was tempered by Typhoon Shanshan and the "megaquake" alert, issued -- and later lifted -- by the weather agency in August for the first time under ...

An emergency warning related to a typhoon is issued when a typhoon similar ... Heavy rain is also expected mainly in western Japan, with a maximum of 300 mm expected in northern Kyushu and Shikoku ...

President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and announced he would replace five other high level positions in an unprecedented ...

Typhoon Hagibis, one of the strongest in Japan's history ... warnings at the highest level possible for 13 prefectures. The alert covered nearly one third of the entire country.

Typhoon Gaemi, packing sustained wind speeds of 190km (118 miles) per hour, also affected Japan and the Philippines ... where authorities have issued a red storm alert. In Taiwan's northeastern ...

The country issued a weather alert as Typhoon Koinu is approaching and may make landfall later this week, bringing gales and downpours to the southeastern parts of the island. The weather bureau ...