Japanese drinks giant Kirin Holdings (2503.T) on Friday scrapped its beer alliance with a conglomerate linked to the Myanmar military after the army staged a coup deposing the democratically elected ...

The disaster killed 15,900 people, with 2,520 people still listed as missing as of the end of February, according to the ...

Geo-physically, Bhutan is located in the young Himalayan Mountains and considered to be one of the most seismically active ...

People Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) met on a recent trip to Japan expressed their concern about the Hualien County flooding disaster and wished the victims a speedy recovery, he said upon his ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has revised its flood prevention guidelines for underground spaces in the capital for the first time in 17 years amid abnormal weather conditions in recent years, ...

Leaving a car in a secure parking structure usually feels like the safe choice, but even those facilities can be overwhelmed when nature strikes hard. In Japan, an underground parking garage was hit ...

As the slope flattened out, the landslide blew open the channel and spread out, depositing a wall of uprooted trees just ...

Shinkansen bullet trains between Akita prefecture and Morioka in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Japan were temporarily suspended on Tuesday afternoon after heavy rains lashed the region, resuming ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes a US$ 2.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to help communities in South Sudan adapt to the growing impacts of climate change and recurrent ...

TOKYO (AP) — Torrential rain pounded the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Friday, triggering floods and landslides and sending residents to shelters as officials issued highest-level warnings in ...

A man on Monday inspects a flooded shed in Tamana in the Kumamoto Prefecture on southwestern Japan's Kyushu island. Kyushu was hit by continuous heavy rainfall due to a stagnant front as torrential ...