By bno - Taipei Office Once considered a distant challenge, climate change is now seen as an urgent and visible reality ...

Global warming added nearly 520 billion yen ($4.04 billion) to the economic damage wreaked by Typhoon No. 19 in eastern Japan in 2019, according to an international group of climate scientists.

Typhoon No. 7 will halt parts of Japan’s main bullet-train networks on Aug. 15 during the Bon holidays when the powerful, slow-moving storm is expected to make landfall. Central Japan Railway ...