Almost one-third of the hotspots was extinguished thanks to the rain, said one official from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

Since Japanese authorities only provided warnings in the Japanese language, many foreigners are left confused.

Japan Meteorological Agency said on Monday that the country is going to face two more typhoons.

A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck a remote area of central California on Tuesday. But a seismologist said there was no connection to a slightly smaller quake hours earlier in the San Francisco Bay region.

Currently, SAR operations were ongoing in central, eastern, and northeastern regions. The number might be increasing.

The warning did not consist of a single kanji, but it was written with hiragana alone.

It is unfortunate for the Italian rugby team as Hagibis also affects the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Activists with the Extinction Rebellion movement blocked major roads in Berlin and Amsterdam on Monday at the beginning of what was billed as a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies.

Halting train service and delaying more than a hundred flights, Typhoon Faxai, hit the Kanto region.

On Wednesday, torrential rain as fierce as +500mm was pouring over Kyushu, southwestern part of Japan.

Bullet train services on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line will be canceled between Shin-Osaka and Kokura stations on Aug. 15 as a large typhoon is likely to hit western Japan, West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) said on Aug. 14.

An estimated 12,751 people were rushed to hospitals due to heat-related conditions across Japan over the week from Aug. 5, of whom 23 died, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday.