Residents near the hole have taken shelter at a local school, and there were worries Thursday about flooding and leaking sewage water. There's also been a renewed debate about Japan’s aging ...

Tropical storm Shanshan continued to impact Japan, causing torrential rain, landslides and widespread flooding over the ...

Japan is about to flood the market with nearly a quarter of a million tons of rice stocks in an unprecedented move to combat ...

The government of Japan and UNESCO have signed a $750,000 project that is aimed at combating Ghana's increasing water-related ...

Japan’s government says it asked the U.S. to exclude it from 25% steel and aluminum tariffs, a change from duty-free quotas ...

About 20 percent of Japan’s population resides in areas that are at risk of flooding when heavy rain causes rivers to overflow, according to a recent Asahi Shimbun analysis. The number has ...

The research group analyzed health insurance claims data from three prefectures―Hiroshima, Okayama and Ehime―over a one-year period following the western Japan floods. The study examined the ...

Now, the same central Japan area has been hit by torrential downpours, with rivers bursting their banks and hillsides crumbling. Floods and mudslides across the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture ...

On New Year's Day, Japan's Noto Peninsula experienced a massive ... washing away homes, flooding temporary housing for quake survivors, and triggering deadly mudslides that cut off communities ...

The project is structured around three research tasks. The first focuses on establishing a comprehensive U.S.-Japan flood risk data inventory, concentrating on existing and missing data related to ...

"We remain prepared for the ongoing prospect of more rain and the likelihood of more flooding, both flash flooding and ...