AP TOKYO — A powerful typhoon roared up Japan’s main island Wednesday, killing five people, as workers at the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant prepared for impact. Typhoon Roke first ...

On Monday, Mr. Yaginuma, 49, a third-generation owner of an auto body shop in Fukushima Prefecture, was cleaning out the wreckage from Typhoon Hagibis, which battered Japan over the weekend and ...

Typhoon Neoguri, the worst storm to hit Japan in 15 years, is likely to reach areas near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant by Friday morning, forecasters have warned. The site’s ...

Meanwhile the threat of flooding and storm surge brought about by typhoon Wipha has put the operators of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on alert as efforts are undertaken to prevent ...

A typhoon is headed toward Tokyo and the Fukushima nuclear plant (NOAA)Typhoon Wipha, currently a storm with at least 80 mph sustained winds, appears poised to sideswipe, or even directly hit ...

Heavy rain, flooding and gale warnings have been issued for Tokyo as Typhoon Wipha makes its way ... near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. A major storm like Wipha's shaping up to be, warns ...

KORIYAMA, Japan — The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades ... The highest toll was in Fukushima prefecture north of Tokyo, where levees burst in at least 14 places along ...

while as many as seven deaths have been directly or indirectly linked to the typhoon. Tropical storm Neoguri skirted past the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Japan’s east coast Friday and ...

Fukushima watchers may recall the harsh criticism Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, came under for hurriedly draining rainwater from the site as typhoon ...

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Tokyo Electric Power Co, operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, said some monitoring equipment had suffered glitches but it did not appear as if the typhoon had caused any radioactive ...