MIURA, Japan, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Torrential rains brought by a powerful typhoon lashing Japan's Pacific coast caused landslides that killed four people with six missing, public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday,

After living in Japanese cities for almost a year, I'm getting ready to go home to Canada. There are things I'll miss, like Japan's train system.

Videos show enormous walls of storm surf pounding the coastline as deadly flooding and landslides devastate eastern Japan.

The country's meteorological agency had warned of an "imminent threat to life," but this has now been downgraded

New rice varieties give hope that farmers can overcome the climate emergency and a warmer future that threatens harvests

On September 22, 2026, a Japan-US summit was held between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President Donald Trump, where they agreed to comprehensively strengthen cooperation in the field of economic security,

And even steeper decline seems to be in store. Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research projects that, under its “medium scenario,” the country’s population will fall to approximately 91.6 million by 2065, and 87 million by 2070. By then, nearly four in ten Japanese will also be 65 or older.

Sanae Takaichi has been under domestic pressure to publicly support the ICC, after the US sanctioned the court and its Japanese president