The Tohoku region of northern Japan has been pounded by torrential rain, causing many rivers to burst their banks. The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded its rain alert in Yamagata Prefecture ...

Using data from torrential rain that hit the northern Kyushu ... north Japan's Hakkoda mountains 'Snow monster' trees delight visitors to north Japan's Hakkoda mountains ...

"The rain is the heaviest we have ever experienced," the Japan Meteorological Agency said in its latest update, issued Saturday. The agency issued its highest-possible alert for areas on the ...

KANUMA, Tochigi Prefecture--A wave of thefts of bonsai miniature potted trees across Japan appear tied to an ... men getting out of a vehicle in the rain, entering Warabi-en and walking out ...

“They shed leaves profusely in autumn, and ‘rain’ caterpillars on ... the seat of Japanese bureaucracy, where the starkly bare trees could have been mistaken for power transmission poles.

While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers are also worried ...

"This has happened in the past, but I don't remember seeing something of this scale," Hiroyuki Wada, a tree doctor at the Flower Association of Japan told local outlet NHK. Mr Wada said that the ...