The typhoon is currently moving northward over the sea east of Japan. Intermittent heavy rain is forecast to fall in Hokkaido and the Tohoku region from Aug. 11. The Japan Meteorological Agency ...

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 ...

Japan's northern island of Hokkaido has been hit by a powerful earthquake ... The earthquake comes on the heels of a deadly typhoon lashing the west of Japan over the past few days.

The JMA says the typhoon could move northward over the Sea of Japan toward Hokkaido from Aug. 16 through 17. In the city of Wakayama, a 60-year-old man fell into a coma after being found trapped ...

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 ...

TOKYO: Typhoon Ampil edged closer to Japan’s main ... East Nippon Expressway, which manages expressways in the Kanto region and Hokkaido, warned that some roads may be shut from Aug 16 to ...