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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 23, 2020
Japan braces for perfect storm of COVID-19 spreading at flood shelters
The nation's usual approach leaves little room for social distancing, with each person allotted space for one straw tatami mat — about 1.6 square meters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2020
This year may mark fastest start to Atlantic hurricane season since 1851
A tropical depression has formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico, near the Yucatan Peninsula, and will likely grow into Tropical Storm Cristobal by Tuesday, marking the fastest start to the Atlantic hurricane season since 1851.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 20, 2020
Local leaders prepare anti-coronavirus measures at natural disaster evacuation shelters
June traditionally marks the start of the rainy season in most of Japan, while typhoons normally start to arrive in August.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 6, 2020
After fires, Australian rains bring floods and threat of tropical cyclone
Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bush fires on Thursday, with flooding rains deluging some parts of the eastern states and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country's northwest over the weekend.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jan 17, 2020
Nagoya tech school students plan to build seaplane for flood rescues
Members of Nagoya City Technical High School's airplane club are planning to develop a seaplane that can be used to rescue people from floods — an idea they came up with after learning about the Ise Bay Typhoon, a 1959 storm that swept through the Chubu region, claiming more than 5,000 lives.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2020
After Indonesia's deadly floods, few hear climate 'wake-up call'
Floods that killed more than 60 people in Indonesia's capital after the biggest rainfall since records began should be a wake-up call to climate change in one of the world's biggest carbon emitters, environmental groups said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 4, 2020
Death toll in Jakarta flooding rises to 53; nearly 175,000 displaced
Nearly 175,000 people remain displaced in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and nearby towns on Saturday after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people amid some of the heaviest rain since records began, authorities said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2020
Indonesia plans cloud seeding to halt rain; death toll from Jakarta flooding rises to 43
Indonesia said Friday it would start seeding clouds west of the capital, Jakarta, in a bid to prevent further rainfall after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2019
Floodwaters recede but damage lingers: One Japan couple's harrowing autumn
David Bowen and his wife, Yoko, thought the worst that 2019 had to offer must have passed after Typhoon Faxai blew away part of the roof of their house in September.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2019
Venice hotel bookings at low ebb after post-flood cancellations
Tourists are shunning Venice after a series of exceptionally high tides last month, with a plunge in hotel bookings bringing fresh economic woe to the lagoon city.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 5, 2019
Japan tops Global Climate Risk Index as extreme heat hits countries both rich and poor
The report says Japan faced “three exceptionally strong extreme weather events” in 2018.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Nov 29, 2019
Sendai launches new waterway project to prevent city flooding
Deadly Typhoon Hagibis caused riverbanks to burst across Japan in October, and also led to sewer flooding around Sendai Station, known as the gateway to the Tohoku region, leaving roads and underground passages in the heart of the city underwater.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2019
Reversing the death of Venice
Today, the world is fretting over Venice's soaked and damaged urbs, but it has largely failed to recognize the extent to which the Venetian 'civitas' is in decline.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2019
Without better flood protection, Venice risks losing World Heritage status
Venice could lose its status as a World Heritage Site if it does not adequately protect itself from worsening flooding, UNESCO representatives have warned as they offered help after recent inundations.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Nov 22, 2019
Less than a quarter of Kyushu municipalities have up-to-date flood risk maps
Production of flood hazard maps along rivers in Kyushu is lagging far behind other regions in Japan, with less than a quarter of municipalities required by law to create such maps having finished the work as of the end of March.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2019
Ensure effective state spending to prevent disasters
Whenever the nation is hit by a major disaster, infrastructure shortcomings become painfully clear.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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