TOKYO -- An unusually powerful typhoon packing 155 mph gusts is approaching the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. Okinawa weather officials projected that Typhoon Bolaven would be the strongest ...

(AP) The strongest typhoon to hit Okinawa in several years lashed the southern Japanese island and surrounding areas Sunday, injuring four people and cutting off power to about 30,000 households.

1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, Japan time: What was a relatively quiet typhoon season in the northwest Pacific has come to an end ...

TOKYO, June 9 (Reuters) - Japanese refiner Nansei Sekiyu KK, wholly owned by Brazil's state-run Petrobras , said it shut its 100,000 barrels per day Nishihara refinery in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, ...

A powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan on Sunday, churning up high waves that washed three American airmen out to sea and killed at least one before taking aim at Tokyo. Elsewhere in the Pacific, a ...