Powerful typhoon Chaba barrels toward Japan
Storm and heavy rain warnings were issued today as powerful typhoon Chaba barrelled toward Japan, after lashing the southern coast of South Korea with winds that triggered flash floods and left at...Russian, Japanese physicists create compact graphene-based plasmon generator
Researchers from Laboratory of 2D Materials’ Optoelectronics, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies (MIPT), and Tohoku University (Japan) have...
Japan… Officials give first look at Toyosu market flooding problem, play down pollution fears
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials on Friday played down flooding beneath a proposed flagship food market in Toyosu as the result of heavy rain that will be pumped out or will seep away. The...
Japense Environment Ministry eyes tighter control of harmful waste exports
The Environment Ministry is planning to tighten restrictions on exports of electronic waste by fully revising the so-called Basel law on trade in hazardous waste, according to a ministry source. The...
Typhoon Mindulle lashes Tokyo, heads north to Tohoku and Hokkaido
Typhoon Mindulle lashed the greater Tokyo area on Monday, dumping heavy rain and leaving at least one person dead and 29 injured in storm-related incidents. Storm water coursed down usually placid...
Japan Evacuates Over 34,000 People in Kawasaki City Due to Landslide Threat
The Japanese authorities evacuated over 34,000 people in Kawasaki city near Tokyo due to the threat of landslides caused by heavy rains and typhoon Mindulle, local media said today. According...
