Japanese weather officials are warning that moist air is making atmospheric conditions in northern Japan extremely unstable and triggering heavy rain there.

Scorching heat continues to grip Japan on Monday, pushing temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in many places.

Local authorities in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan have issued evacuation orders to parts of two cities where heavy rain has increased the risk of landslides.

Severe Tropical Storm Lan has injured at least 26 people in five prefectures across western Japan.

A severe tropical storm is expected to approach Japan's Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean later this week and the country's main island of Honshu next week.

Scorching weather is expected to prevail in wide regions of Japan on Tuesday, pushing temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius

The city of Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, says it will change the venue for a ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing on Wednesday due to an approaching severe tropical storm.

Scorching heat continues across wide regions of Japan. Weather officials are urging people to take extra care to avoid heatstroke.

[NEWSIS] Tickets for Japanese actor Kentaro Sakaguchi's fan meeting in Korea sold out as soon as they opened.

Park Hyun-sik won the Best Actor Award at the "Asia Top Awards 2023" held at the Air Force Convention Hall in Bangkok on May 2 (local time).

Children at an elementary school in a village in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, have marked the third anniversary of deadly flooding that hit the region.

The second half of the season seems to be off to a good start as well. CODE - The Price of Wish" (Yomiuri/Nippon Television Network, Sunday nights at 10:30 p.m.), in which Kentaro Sakaguchi (31) stars in two consecutive dramas for the same station, started on the 2nd.