At least six people have been killed by flooding and landslides following record rainfall in the Noto region of Japan, an area still recovering from a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day.

The earthquake is believed to be connected to the deadly magnitude-7.6 temblor that devastated the Noto region on New Year’s Day. A seismic intensity of upper 5 on the Japanese scale of 7 was ...

Japan’s nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally disqualified a reactor in the country’s north-central region for a restart, ...

Now, the same central Japan area has been hit by torrential downpours, with rivers bursting their banks and hillsides crumbling. Floods and mudslides across the Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture ...

A powerful earthquake rocked the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture at around ... to evacuate amid urgent tsunami warnings in western Japan. The intensity of the quake was estimated at 7.6 ...

Muddy rivers ran high in Anamizu, a city on the Noto Peninsula, where damage from the January ... Military personnel have been sent to the Ishikawa region on the Sea of Japan coast to join rescue ...

While the Noto and Suzu are aging more rapidly than other regions, the same is happening nationwide: As of 2022, 29% of Japan’s population is over 65. We are reminded that supporting the elderly in ...

TOKYO (AP) — Rescue workers searched for at least six people missing Sunday after heavy rain pounded Japan’s northcentral region of Noto, triggering landslides and floods and leaving one ...

The government, its makeup in flux after the governing party lost seats this week, will soon need to make decisions that will ...

(Photo courtesy of Imperial Household Agency)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's former Empress Michiko ... keeping in her thoughts the disaster-hit Noto region in Ishikawa Prefecture, the Imperial ...