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 ...

“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.

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 ...