The Japan Meteorological Agency is warning against strong winds, storm surges and damage from landslides from extremely powerful Typhoon No. 9, which pummeled Okinawa Prefecture on the morning of ...

NAHA--Typhoon No. 6 brought punishing winds to the southernmost Okinawa Prefecture from Aug. 1, causing power outages and contributing to at least one death. According to the Nago Police Station ...

Typhoon Jelwat made landfall in Okinawa, Japan over the weekend causing plenty of damage in its wake, and these two videos below show just how powerful a weakening tropical storm can be.

China has borne the brunt of a ferocious start to the Pacific typhoon season A typhoon has lashed southern Japan, forcing evacuations and cutting off power to one-third of homes on the Okinawa ...

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated the high accuracy of their newly developed typhoon observation device, which is ...

Researchers have demonstrated the high accuracy of their newly developed typhoon observation device that can be dropped from an aircraft into the eye of a typhoon. This kind of device, called a ...

A large and very strong typhoon is engulfing Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa. Officials are warning of very strong winds, storm surges and high waves. Japan's Meteorological Agency says ...

In the blood-soaked spring of 1945, the Pacific War’s most devastating confrontation unfolded on a small Japanese island, ...

For the past four years, poor, typhoon-swept Okinawa has dangled at what bitter Army men call “the logistical end of the line,” and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient.