Japan's largest urban fire in decades rips through 170 buildings

A huge fire broke out in the city of Oita, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, damaging at least 170 buildings and forcing ...
Malaysia Sun

Tsunami alerts in Japan, Philippines as Typhoon Fung-Wong nears

Authorities in Japan issued a tsunami warning for Iwate Prefecture in the north of the country today, while the Philippines announced the evacuation ...
AOL

Typhoon Nari lashes northern Japan with strong winds and heavy rain

Typhoon Nari crossed Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido early on Tuesday, the first storm in almost a decade to scale this further north. The typhoon brought intense winds, heavy rainfall, and ...
NBC Washington

Japan on Alert as Typhoon Stays on Course

The U.S. military has moved 61 aircraft from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan in advance of a typhoon which is expected to bring damaging winds and a dangerous surge on Tuesday local time (late ...