This year’s most powerful typhoon, Hagibis, is inching toward Japan. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, or JMA, it's classed as a violent typhoon -- the highest category on Japan’s ...

fall is the most dangerous season for typhoons, and authorities are urging people to be on alert. Haishen, which means “god of the ocean” in Chinese, developed far south of Japan on September ...

Japan has been hit by one of its strongest typhoons in decades. Typhoon Shanshan made landfall at 08:00 local time on Wednesday (23:00 GMT) on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's major islands.

Forecasters predict the typhoon will maintain its strength as it approaches eastern Japan, most likely between Aug. 16 and 17. Meanwhile, Typhoon No. 5, which made landfall in Iwate Prefecture ...

"Super typhoon" Neoguri is headed towards Okinawa and then Tokyo this week. The storm has been called a "once in decades" event, with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. The Japan ...

One of the biggest storms to hit the island nation in decades, Kong-rey made landfall on Thursday, with 184-kilometer/hour ...

Strong Typhoon No. 10 continued barreling toward southern Japan on a northwest path on the morning of Aug. 26 with landfall expected the following day, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

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After a decade with the title of Japan's most dangerous city, this led to Tokyo incorrectly ... Hashima was empty for decades, giving multiple typhoons free rein to damage the existing structures.

Four separate storm systems are churning their way through the West Pacific simultaneously, a rare occurrence resulting from ...

Most typhoons scrape or strike places like the Philippines, Japan and Taiwan; they can also hit the Korean Peninsula, China and Vietnam, bringing damaging winds and storm surges. Typhoons have ...

TOKYO: Japan was on alert for typhoon winds and heavy rain Saturday as the death toll from a devastating hurricane that hit the country’s north earlier this week rose to 15. Typhoon Namtheun was ...