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Record Downpours Batter Tokyo, 1 Dead as Trains and Flights Disrupted

Forecasters warn the stalled autumn front could unleash more rain, leaving flood and landslide risks elevated.

United 737 Diverts to Osaka After Cargo Fire Alert; Two Hurt in Evacuation

World Athletics Moves Tokyo Marathons and Race Walks to 7:30 a.m. to Counter Heat

World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 Opens Saturday for Nine Days of Global Competition

Tropical Storm Peipah Batters Japan With Twin Landfalls, Flooding and Mass Evacuations

South Korean Man Arrested in Tokyo Over Girlfriend’s Fatal Stabbing

Gumi Approves Up to ¥2.5 Billion XRP Treasury Buy in Phased Plan Through February 2026

Japan Publishes AI Videos of Mount Fuji Eruption to Prep Tokyo for Worst-Case Ashfall

Japan Probes Brilliant Fireball Over Kyushu That Likely Broke Up Over the Pacific

USS New Orleans Fire Off Okinawa Extinguished After 12-Hour Battle

Police Arrest Son After Akita ‘Bear Attack’ Is Reclassified as Homicide

1.6-Kiloton Fireball Lights Southern Japan, Likely Broke Up Over Pacific

DNA Confirms Culled Mother Bear Killed 26-Year-Old on Hokkaido's Mount Rausu

MiniStop Halts In-Store Prepared Foods Nationwide After Expiration-Label Falsification as Osaka Plans Inspections

Rail Usage Up 8% During Obon as Long Highway Jams Decline

Police Arrest Pachinko Employee in Fukushima Over Alleged Staged Robbery of ¥28 Million

UK Marks VJ Day 80 With Beacons, Parades and Community Tributes

Osaka Dotonbori Fire Kills Two Firefighters, Injures Four

Smoke on New N700S Shinkansen Linked to Converter Malfunction

Authorities Confirm Exsanguination in Fatal Rausu-dake Bear Attack