On a Thursday night in August, the skies over eastern Japan opened with a force that had no precedent in the historical record, leaving four people dead across Chiba Prefecture and thousands more stranded in the liminal space of Narita Airport. The storm was not merely a weather event but a reckoning — one that the Japan Meteorological Agency marked with its highest-level warning ever issued for the region. In the morning light that followed, roads remained rivers, trains stood still, and scientists reminded a watching world that what feels unprecedented today may become the new rhythm of a wa
Unprecedented rainfall kills 4 in eastern Japan, strands thousands at Narita
Four people confirmed dead including a man found floating on flooded road and woman trapped in submerged car; one feared dead and another missing.