While pop music blared in the operating room, Hiroshi Sasaki performed cataract surgery on nearly 40 patients, having started ...

Japanese weather officials say damp and warm air flowing toward a weather front has formed bands of heavy rain clouds in Ishikawa Prefecture. They warn that the clouds could also form in adjacent ...

Record-breaking rain has saturated and loosened the ground in Japan's Kyushu region and other areas, mainly in the western ...

UCHINADA, Ishikawa Prefecture--Liquefaction has caused severe and widespread damage here, with houses and roads tilting due to the ground heaving and sinking following the Jan. 1 earthquake.

Through its assistance in fiscal 2025, the ministry hopes to back the reconstruction of the Noto Peninsula quasi-national park, which is among the areas in Ishikawa Prefecture damaged by the 7.6 ...

0.8m tall waves reached Toyama Prefecture around 4:35 pm and 0.4m tall waves also reached Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, at 4:36 pm. Niigata's Sado Island also saw high tidal waves at 4:10 pm.

Wajima, Ishikawa Pref. – Ten elementary and junior high schools in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, reopened Thursday after a closure due to record-breaking heavy rain last weekend.

People stand near a collapsed torii gate caused by an earthquake at Onohiyoshi Shrine in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan January 1, 2024, in this photo released by Kyodo ...

A person walks through the collapsed houses in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan on Sunday (Kyodo News via AP) Wajima city has recorded the highest number of deaths with 69, followed by Suzu with 38.

Locals sweltered as the temperature soared to 39 degrees Celsius in Japan. Footage shows a clear blue sky over Shizuoka City, ...

Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of a ninth victim of severe floods which battered parts of Ishikawa Prefecture last week, local media said. A woman's body was found near a river in Wajima ...

On January 1, a powerful earthquake struck the northern coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. More than 200 people lost their lives and tens of thousands had to evacuate their homes, with the most ...