Japan’s famed cherry blossom season to arrive earlier than usual
Cherry blossom season is expected to arrive in Tokyo a week earlier than usual this year, with full bloom expected on March 27, according to a forecast released Friday by […]
Cherry blossom season is expected to arrive in Tokyo a week earlier than usual this year, with full bloom expected on March 27, according to a forecast released Friday by […]
MADRID – Japan was ranked at the top of a list of countries most affected by extreme weather as climate change takes a heavier toll on nations, both rich and poor, […]
KYODO The government decided Friday to ban in principle the use of plastic straws and cutlery in its cafeterias and to stop passing out plastic bottles to conference attendees — […]
Japan recorded its highest temperature ever Monday as the mercury hit 41.1 in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, amid a deadly heat wave, the Meteorological Agency said. Scorching weather killed 77 people […]
KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture–World-renowned architect Shigeru Ban sprang into action again in a disaster zone by setting up temporary “homes” to give flooding victims here some much-needed privacy. Ban, members of […]
OSAKA (Kyodo) — The death toll from widespread flooding and landslides in western Japan rose to 112 on Monday with over 80 people missing and tens of thousands displaced. Although […]
One of the most powerful earthquakes to rock the Kansai region in decades struck Osaka and neighboring prefectures Monday morning, leaving at least four people dead and more than 300 […]
Mount Shinmoe in the Kirishima mountain range bordering Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures erupted early Wednesday, marking its first such activity in about six years. Read more here.
At 4:49pm, a temblor registering as a lower 5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7, began off the coast of the Fukushima Prefecture. The nuclear complexes reported no […]
A massive blackout cut power to as many as 580,000 households for a short period in central Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, disrupting trains and traffic lights and bringing elevators to […]