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 on Aug.

More than 800 flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of homes lost power as a slow-moving typhoon made landfall in western Japan early on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue flood and ...

That scare ended up being tame, but the most recent phenomena that ... country has been complicated by typhoon Shanshan which ...

Experts suggest that a recent drop in sea surface temperatures ... the high-pressure system recedes towards the country’s east. Most of Japan’s top ten typhoon disasters since 1951 occurred ...

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 ...

While Japan experiences more regular and severe seismic activity than most of the US ... Big earthquakes in recent decades have damaged or destroyed many buildings and had high death tolls.