Continuous rain on Wednesday has helped contain the spread of a week-long wildfire in the city of Ofunato, Japan's Iwate Prefecture ... rain from a rare tropical cyclone began lashing part ...

Japan is bracing for another round of heavy rainfall as Typhoon No. 7 formed in southern waters around 3 a.m. on Aug. 13 after the season’s fifth typhoon crossed the Tohoku region ...

Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the ...

A tropical cyclone set to bring heavy rainfall and damaging ... (Recorded on the morning of March 6.) Listen to SBS Japanese Audio on Tue, Thu and Fri from 1pm on SBS 3. Replays from 10pm on ...

"It's not impossible, it is unusual, and it's important that people be ready for it". For the first time since 1974, a ...

A rare tropical cyclone veered toward Australia's densely populated eastern coast on Wednesday, sparking emergency warnings, closing hundreds of schools, and threatening to flood thousands of homes.

The outer fringe of a tropical cyclone started whipping eastern Australia on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons. Tropical ...

Japanese insurance company Sompo Japan is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking $150 million or more in reinsurance ...

The current location, trajectory, strength and likely impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, illustrated by seven maps.

Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Australia's west coast on Friday, the country's weather bureau said, lashing the world's largest iron ore hub with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 290 kph.