Japan Rainfall

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  Powerful Typhoon Hits Japan, Tens Of Thousands May Get Affected

  Typhoon Haishen drew closer to Japan's southern mainland on Sunday, prompting authorities to recommend evacuation and warn of potentially record rainfall, unprecedented wind, high tides and large ocean swells.

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  Japan Braces For Powerful Typhoon Haishen, Possible Record Rainfall

  Japan is bracing for powerful Typhoon Haishen as it bears down on the country's southwest, with weather forecasters warning of potential record rainfall, violent wind, high waves and tides.

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  6 Dead As Strongest Typhoon In Quarter Century Batters Japan

  The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall Tuesday, the country's weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings.

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  Japan Floods Death Toll Rises To 25

  The death toll from torrential rains and flooding that swept through Japan's south has reached 25, the government said Tuesday, as rescue teams battled through thick mud to rescue more than 100 still stranded.

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  People Face Distress As Typhoon Hits Near Tokyo

  A strong typhoon stuck near Tokyo, with heavy rain and winds grounding more than 400 flights as officials warned of landslides and flooding.

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  Nasa Data Shows Rainwater Harvesting Could Help Indians

  Rainwater harvesting is not a new concept, but researchers said it is a largely untapped resource in India.

• Japan Sees 50 Per Cent Chance of El Nino Re-Emerging by Summer

  Japan's weather bureau said on Tuesday it sees about a 50 percent chance that an El Nino weather pattern, linked to heavy rainfall in some regions and drought in others, may re-emerge by summer after it subsided over spring.

• Weakened Typhoon Leaves Two Dead, Heads North From Okinawa to Main Japan Islands

  Torrential rains battered Japan's Okinawa islands on Wednesday as a weakened but still dangerous typhoon, leaving two dead and threatening widespread flooding as it headed for the nation's main islands.

• Japan sees higher chance of El Nino this summer

  There is a greater possibility of an El Nino weather pattern emerging this summer, Japan's weather bureau said on Monday, after previously forecasting a 50 per cent chance of the phenomenon that is often linked to heavy rainfall and droughts.

• Radioactive water leaks at Fukushima as operator underestimates rainfall

  Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said today, after it underestimated how much rain would fall at the plant and failed to pump it out quickly enough.

• Death toll rises to six after torrential rain in Japan

  Japanese rescuers found four bodies on Saturday at the scene of a landslide in the north of the country, taking the total death toll from record rainfall to six.

• Waterfall-like rain eases in Japan, but 27 dead

  Most of the quarter-million people forced to flee massive flooding in southwest Japan were able to return home by Monday, but weather officials warned the danger had not fully passed from the record rainfall that left at least 27 people dead over the weekend.

• 50,000 flee as record rain in Japan kills 17

  At least 17 people died, 20 were missing and 50,000 were ordered to evacuate as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, officials and reports said on Thursday.