Bengaluru can take cues from Japan’s underground flood tunnels, China’s sponge cities, to tackle its recurring flood woes, an ...

The Georgetown neighborhood of D.C. has experienced a handful of major floods in the past century. Notably, the 1942 flood ...

Hongo is a Japan Real Time reporter for The Wall Street Jounal. He writes broadly about Japan on a variety of topics. Follow him on Twitter @junhongowsj ...

People can visit the flood protection facility in Kasukabe, which safeguards Tokyo and has shafts large enough to fit the ...

With the floodwater surging rapidly, the mother and son smashed through a mud wall and scrambled up ... As a resident of flood-prone Japan, I remind myself anew that remembering past lessons ...

Takashi Nakamichi was a senior correspondent at the Tokyo bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering the Bank of Japan and the Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Two permanent flood defence walls are to be installed in Ironbridge to protect vulnerable homes and businesses from the River Severn. Telford and Wrekin Council has been awarded £708,000 by the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Five million people were issued "rare weather warnings" in eastern Japan and 800,000 were advised to evacuate their homes as massive amounts of flooding tore up ...

One of the by-products of the Japanese “anti-Communist” agreement with Germany has been a flood of Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda into the Nipponese empire that, so far, has had little effect on ...

Bengaluru can take cues from Japan’s underground flood tunnels, China’s sponge cities, to tackle its recurring flood woes, an analysis by Knight Frank has said With Bengaluru grappling with ...