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December 16, 2012
MANILA--The Philippines declared on Dec. 15 an 18-day unilateral Christmas truce with Maoist guerrillas, in part to let forces focus on relief efforts on a southern island...
December 05, 2012
NEW BATAAN, Philippines--Blocked roads and severed communications in the southern Philippines frustrated rescuers on Dec. 5 as teams searched for hundreds of people missing...
August 25, 2012
A powerful typhoon packing winds up to 162 kilometers (101 miles) per hour is lumbering toward the southern Japanese island of Okinawa and is expected to reach the island on...
August 07, 2012
MANILA -- Deadly torrential rains submerged much of the Philippine capital and surrounding areas on Aug. 7, forcing nearly 270,000 people to flee their homes with more flooding ...
August 02, 2012
TAIPEI -- Torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding across Taiwan on August 2, killing five people and injuring 15, as Typhoon Saola skirted the island's east and north ...
December 26, 2011
MANILA -- The death toll in the Philippines from one of the country's worst natural disaster in two decades has risen to 1,249 with about 1,100 missing, disaster officials said ...
November 19, 2011
One of the country's three big nonlife insurers posted a group net loss and the other two a drop in group net profits for the first half of the current fiscal year.
September 22, 2011
In the middle of Tokyo's Ginza district, one of the zelkova trees that line the street fell and blocked the sidewalk. The tree was about 10 meters tall and measured 40...
September 21, 2011
A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast Sept. 21, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for...
September 20, 2011
NAGOYA -- Some 1 million city residents here were advised to evacuate Sept. 20 as the powerful Typhoon No. 15 pounded the Tokai region with torrential downpours and strong...
September 19, 2011
"Harusame" (spring rain) gently moistens all things, while there is something solemn about "akisame" (autumn rain) that cools off summer's residual heat. According to the...
September 07, 2011
WAKAYAMA -- For the first time in more than 30 years, a typhoon has left more than 100 people dead or missing in Japan.
September 06, 2011
Helicopters began ferrying supplies Sept. 6 to communities cut off from the outside world by Japan's worst typhoon in seven years. The storm has left at least 37 dead and 54...
September 06, 2011
The Kumano Kodo ancient pilgrimage routes that thread through the rugged Kii mountain range have old stone-paved paths to stop travelers getting mired in mud. The ancient...
July 21, 2011
Let me cite a short poem titled "Kiri" (Fog) by a 3-year-old boy in Kagami (now Kochi), Kochi Prefecture. It appears in "Enpitsu de Oshaberi" (Chatting with a pencil),...
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