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HURRICANE

Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 30, 2021
New Orleans gripped by floods and blackouts as Ida unleashes fury
The storm, wielding some of the most powerful winds ever to hit the Louisiana, drove a wall of water inland when it thundered ashore Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 17, 2020
Hurricane Sally’s fierce rain shows how climate change raises storm risks
Climate change likely made the storm more dangerous by slowing it down and feeding it more moisture.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2020
Hurricane Sally swamps U.S. Gulf Coast with massive floods and 'unreal' rain
Hurricane Sally uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Wednesday as it brought what the U.S. National Hurricane Center called "historic and catastrophic" flooding to the Alabama-Florida coast.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 16, 2020
Quake-hit Puerto Rico to get $8.2 billion in delayed U.S. aid
Puerto Rico will be allowed access to $8.2 billion in delayed disaster-aid funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the island's nonvoting member of the U.S. Congress said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2019
Bahamas tourist industry hopes for quick comeback from 'Category Hell' hurricane
As rescuers search for bodies amid mountains of debris and the stench of death on the Bahamas island of Abaco, life on most of the archipelago's 700 isles is little changed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 12, 2019
Purgatory in paradise: Bahamas tent cities to house Dorian survivors
For some Bahamians who escaped death but lost their homes in Hurricane Dorian's hellish rampage over the island communities of Freeport and Great Abaco, life in the tent shelters erected this week seems like purgatory.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2019
'Everything is gone': Bahamians stunned in Dorian's wake, 70,000 need immediate humanitarian relief
Stunned residents of the Bahamas surveyed the wreckage of their homes and officials struggled to assess the number killed by Hurricane Dorian, as the storm bore down on the South Carolina coast on Thursday, threatening record flooding.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2019
Dorian starts to inch north after dealing epic damage to Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian is starting to move again, inching toward the northwest and potentially up the U.S. East Coast after bashing the Bahamas for almost two days with high winds and driving rains that have inflicted huge damage, killing five on one island alone.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2019
Hurricane Dorian coming 'dangerously close' to Florida coast after thrashing Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian grew and picked up speed, churning on a path that forecasters said would come "dangerously close" to Florida later on Tuesday after the storm battered the northern Bahamas, killing at least five people.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2019
Trump stumped by Category 5 hurricane crawling toward East Coast
President Donald Trump expressed surprise as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and approached the U.S. East Coast on Sunday, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2019
Dorian strengthens into powerful Category 5 hurricane as it bears down on Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian intensified into a dangerous Category 5 storm as it approached the Bahamas on Sunday, expected to pound the islands with up to two days of torrential rain, high waves and damaging winds before taking aim at the U.S. mainland.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2019
Trump slams 'corrupt' Puerto Rico as Storm Dorian looms, looking to pack hurricane punch
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Puerto Rico "one of the most corrupt places on earth" as the U.S. territory prepared for a hit by Tropical Storm Dorian, which brought back memories on the island of devastation from hurricanes two years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 22, 2019
Amid mass protests and mounting calls to quit, Puerto Rico governor won't seek re-election
Puerto Rico's governor said on Sunday he would not seek re-election next year and would step down as head of his party following nine days of sometimes violent protests demanding his resignation over vulgar chat messages.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2019
Puerto Rico governor slams 'bully' Trump as hurricane relief fight rages on
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, who has clashed with President Donald Trump over disaster aid and has complained that residents of the U.S. territory are treated like "second-class citizens," indicated that he's tired of being pushed around by the White House.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2019
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel quits after 2005 blackface photos emerge
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel has resigned after photos emerged Thursday that reportedly show him at a Halloween party masquerading in blackface as a victim of Hurricane Katrina.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 17, 2018
Death toll rises to at least 29 as searches continue after Florida hurricane
Another 10 people in Florida have been confirmed dead in the wake of Hurricane Michael, bringing the number of storm-related deaths to at least 29 as rescue workers try to reach hundreds more people whose whereabouts is unknown.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2018
Trump tours Florida hurricane destruction, says situation in town 'very tough'
U.S. President Donald Trump surveyed the damage from Hurricane Michael and met with survivors on Monday, saying food and housing were the top priorities for those hit in Florida's storm-ravaged Panhandle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 13, 2018
Hurricane Michael death toll rises to at least 17 as search goes on in Florida
The death toll from Hurricane Michael rose to 17 people across four states on Friday as rescuers, hampered by power and phone outages, used cadaver dogs, drones and heavy equipment to search devastated communities in the Florida Panhandle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 11, 2018
Hurricane Michael, fiercest in 80 years, pounds Florida with 250-kph winds
Hurricane Michael, the third-most-powerful ever to strike the U.S. mainland, battered Florida's Gulf coast with roof-shredding winds, raging surf and torrential rains before it was downgraded to a tropical storm as it headed through Georgia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 11, 2018
Scientists blame warm water in the Gulf of Mexico for spawning Hurricane Michael's intensity
When Hurricane Michael barreled into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with 155-mph (249-kph) sustained winds, it defied forecasts made just two days beforehand, its wind speeds doubling since Monday and coming in just short of the highest category of intensity.
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.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.

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