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 ...

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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 ...

Thousands of people in Japan have been ordered to evacuate ... evacuation orders and warnings in anticipation of dangerous ...

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.

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 ...

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

The Philippines is battered by about 20 typhoons and storms each year. It’s often hit by earthquakes and has more than a dozen active volcanoes, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone ...