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DAWN
| 10 months ago
A collapsed house lies on the bank of the Kumanoue River in Ukiha, Fukuoka prefecture. Photo by AFP Residents walk on a temporary wooden bridge over a collapsed river in Ukiha, Fukuoka prefecture. A typhoon menacing already sodden southwestern Japan...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
A typhoon menacing already sodden southwestern Japan could dump weeks' worth of rain on the area, forecasters warned on Wednesday, as communities struggle to recover from huge floods. Typhoon Khanun was sitting just west of the main southern island...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
Authorities on Tuesday confirmed the 29th fatality following record-setting downpours in the southwest beginning last week, as search and rescue operations continued amid growing fears of further disasters due to an approaching typhoon. The body of...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
Flood-battered southwestern Japan on Tuesday braced for a typhoon amid fears it could heap further misery on an area where at least 32 are dead or missing after record rainfall. Typhoon Khanun was lashing the Amami island chain, south of Kyushu where...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
The death toll from the downpours in southwestern Japan reached 27 on Monday when a man believed to be one of six people declared missing was found dead in Kumamoto Prefecture, police and firefighters said. The torrential rainfall since Thursday in...
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International Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
A quarter of a million evacuees began to return home on Monday after a letup in torrential rains over the weekend that killed at least 27 people in southern and western Japan and flooded the grounds of the famed Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto.
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
July 15, 2012 Vehicles are piled-up in a residential area covered in mud after heavy rains fell at Kumamoto city in Japan's southern island of Kyushu on July 12, 2012. (Jiji Press/AFP/GettyImages) Japanese soldiers and rescuers were dispatched to...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
The death toll in Japan has increased to 24 as torrential rains causing flooding and landslides in the southern area of the country, officials said Sunday. Local authorities in Fukuoka prefecture said a 70-year-old man died in a landslide and another...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
The death toll caused by heavy rain in northern Kyushu climbed to 25 on Sunday, local authorities said. In Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, a 70-year-old man died after being caught in a landslide, while another man died in Yanagawa, also in Fukuoka, after...
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Sky News
| 10 months ago
The Japan Meteorological Agency has warned of more landslides and flooding as rainfall of 11cm (4in) per hour was recorded in some areas. Evacuation orders have been issued to around 260,000 people in the north of the island where more rivers have...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
59 Self-Defense Force soldiers search for missing people among collapsed houses in southwestern Japan [Reuters] More than 5,000 people are cut off by landslides as more heavy rain and floods are forecast in southwestern Japan, where the death toll...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Around 250,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes after torrential rain caused severe flooding in south-west Japan , officials said Saturday. Landslides and flood waters have killed around 20 people on the southern island of Kyushu over...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
The orders were issued in four of Kyushu's seven prefectures Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto and Oita. The police, meanwhile, have launched searches for seven missing people in Oita and Kumamoto. In Fukuoka Prefecture alone, around 190,000 people from 65,000...
