Hokkaido and the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan were drenched in heavy downpours on Aug. 10 by the remnants of Typhoon No. 9, prompting an evacuation order for one town and a village being ...

Typhoon No. 4 made landfall near Sasebo ... humid air blowing around the edge of a Pacific high-pressure system. Hokkaido and the Tohoku region can expect up to 80 mm of rainfall over the 24 ...

The Hokkaido Railway Company has decided to suspend ... causing flooding and inundation. Typhoon Shanshan developed slowly after it made landfall in western Japan. Shanshan formed over the sea ...

Some 1.6 million residents across Hokkaido remain without power. The quake is the second disaster to hit Japan this week, after a deadly typhoon lashed the country's west coast. The earthquake ...

hurried to an emergency shelter before the typhoon. But he was denied entry. He is from Hokkaido Prefecture and was told the evacuation center was only for registered residents. With nowhere to go ...