Japan flood toll rises to over 100

Japan faces 'frequent' disasters as flood toll reaches 200

Japan risks more severe weather and must find ways to alleviate disasters, a government spokesman says, as intense heat and water shortages raised fear of disease among survivors of last week’s floods and landslides.

Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 156

Hopes of finding survivors fade as rescue workers carry out house-to-house searches after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan's worst weather-related disaster for decades.

July 12, 2018
July 12, 2018

Japan faces 'frequent' disasters as flood toll reaches 200

Japan risks more severe weather and must find ways to alleviate disasters, a government spokesman says, as intense heat and water shortages raised fear of disease among survivors of last week’s floods and landslides.

July 10, 2018
July 10, 2018

Japan rescuers go house to house as flood toll hits 156

Hopes of finding survivors fade as rescue workers carry out house-to-house searches after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in Japan's worst weather-related disaster for decades.