The unprecedented rainfall — claiming seven lives so far — came as the region was recovering from a devastating earthquake ...

Rescuers combed the debris-strewn banks of a river in central Japan on Sept. 23, searching for drowning victims after homes ...

New York, Sept. 24 (Jiji Press)--Japan's government promoted Japanese tourism and food at an event in New York Monday. Products including sake and traditional "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware produced in ...

More than 50 communities in Ishikawa Prefecture have become isolated following record rains that caused flooding and ...

Search efforts resumed at around 7 a.m. on Sept. 24 here in the city's Futegawamachi area for those missing in the ...

Heavy rainfall on Saturday, September 21, triggered flash flooding and mudslides in several areas on the Noto Peninsula in ...

Floodwaters inundated emergency housing built for those who had lost their homes in the Jan 1 earthquake, which killed at ...

Waves of 50 centimetres (20 inches) hit Hachijojima at around 9 am (0000 GMT), after the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a ...

A seventh person has been confirmed dead following heavy rains that hit the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture, which was ...

The river on the Noto Peninsula – an area still reeling from a devastating earthquake in January – overflowed at the weekend, ...

Two huge earthquakes 17 years apart robbed Shoichi Miyakoshi first of his wife, and then his home. Now, his temporary ...

AMMAN — Jordan on Monday expressed condolences to the government and people of Japan over the victims of a series of floods and landslides in Ishikawa Prefecture, according to a Foreign Ministry ...