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Farmland along a river is flooded by heavy rains caused by a typhoon in Yufu, Oita prefecture, western Japan, on August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A typhoon lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds on Thursday (August 29, 2024), causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the…
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Warnings indicate the possibility of a major disaster prompted by the typhoon is extremely high. (File) Tokyo: Japan braced Wednesday for its strongest typhoon of the year, with authorities advising tens of thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges on the main southern island of Kyushu….
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Japan’s PM was due to travel to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia to attend a regional summit (File) Tokyo: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled a trip to Central Asia after earthquake scientists warned the country should prepare for a possible “megaquake”. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory on Thursday after eight…
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An aerial view shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. File photo | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan issued a tsunami advisory Thursday. October 5, 2023, after a strong earthquake struck near its outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean, but lifted it about two hours later. No damage was reported….