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Typhoon makes Kansai International’s runway indistinguishable from the ocean around the island, turns 5.7 million-pound boat into instrument of havoc.

Japan
(accident • airplanes • Kansai International Airport • KIX • Osaka • storm • travel • typhoon • Typhoon Jebi • video • weather)

Powerful typhoon turns downtown Osaka into a ghost town【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 5, 2018

As Typhoon Jebi approaches the downtown area, everyone else wants to get out of it.

Japan
(ghost town • Osaka • rain • storm • typhoon • Umeda • weather)

Samurai sword hunt begins as storm washes away blacksmith’s warehouse in Gifu Prefecture

Casey Baseel
Jul 11, 2018

Police assemble task force after 40 blades are lost in flooding.
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Japan
(flooding • Katana • rain • samurai • Seki • swords • typhoon)

Nude photos of Mt. Fuji circulate online as powerful typhoon removes snow from the peak【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Oct 31, 2017

Japan’s tallest mountain loses its icy top covering as storm blows through eastern Japan.

Japan
(Mountains • Mt. Fuji • nature • outdoors • snow • typhoon • weather)

Stranded passengers on Shinkansen bullet train served out-of-date bread during typhoon

Oona McGee
Oct 26, 2017

The stale bread was given to people travelling on the popular route from Tokyo to Osaka.

Japan
(bullet trains • Japanese trains • shinkansen • Tokaido • tourism • tourists • trains • travel • typhoon)

Japan’s anime-loving penguin loses his 2-D waifu temporarily, breaks our hearts with sad photos

Casey Baseel
Sep 19, 2017

Human otaku offer their sympathies and encouragement during the animal’s difficult time.

Japan
(animals • anime • cute • funny • Grape-kun • Kemono Friends • otaku • typhoon • zoos)

Japanese photographer captures beautiful images of sunset after a typhoon

Meg Murphy
Oct 4, 2016

This isn’t any rainbow after the storm, but it’s just as beautiful!

Japan
(beautiful scenery • Instagram • photography • typhoon)

Powerful typhoon winds turn refrigerator into a car on Taiwan street 【Videos】

Casey Baseel
Sep 28, 2016

Does this make the appliance debris or an evacuee?

Taiwan
(crazy • funny • scary • typhoon • video • weird)

Typhoon turns Tokyo motorist’s drive home into crazy aquatic voyage in flooded tunnel 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Aug 23, 2016

Out for a cruise, in more ways than one.

Japan
(cars • crazy • flood • rain • scary • typhoon • video)

Dramatic scenes at Harajuku Station as Typhoon Mindulle makes landfall in Japan

Oona McGee
Aug 23, 2016

Tokyo’s Yamanote Line was suspended for hours in both directions today due to the incident.

Japan
(Harajuku • Harajuku Station • Japan • Japan Rail • Meiji Jingu • Meiji Shrine • news • trains • typhoon • Yamanote)

Anime-loving bar owner also philanthropist, offers free drinks, place to chill to typhoon victims

Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2015

Japan spent most of this last week getting pounded by torrential rainstorms. This wasn’t just a case of people getting their socks wet, either, as flooding caused damage to houses, disruption of train lines and highways left some people stranded away from home, and in some extreme cases residents even had to be evacuated by helicopter.

But while the rains stimulated the craziness in some people, they brought out the generosity in one bar owner in Tochigi Prefecture, because while the rain was falling on Japan, drinks were on the house, as he took to Twitter to offer free booze or a place to rest for victims of the typhoon.

Japan
(alcohol • anime • bars • Gundam • moving • typhoon)

Twitter user caught in Ibaraki flood tweets photos of his rescuers from inside helicopter

Preston Phro
Sep 11, 2015

Coverage of the heavy rains and typhoon that have swept through Japan this week have dominated much of the news in the country. Today, TV screens were filled with reports on the devastating flooding in Ibaraki Prefecture, where waters burst through the banks and flooded the city of Joso. Images and videos of rescue operations have been widely broadcast on TV, and the news is nothing less than shocking for many.

But one Twitter user saved from the waters by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces wasn’t too scared to tweet photos of his rescue while still inside the helicopter!

Internet, Japan
(flooding • Ibaraki • photos • twitter • typhoon)

Crazy crooner crashes Tokyo typhoon report with his passionate ballad and guitar-playing 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Sep 10, 2015

Japan has spent just about all week getting drenched by a pair of typhoons that have decided to leisurely make their way across the country’s skies. Thankfully, there hasn’t been any significant damage in the Tokyo area, but whenever there’s heavy rainfall, you can expect local news outlets to send a camera crew to check on conditions at one of the capital’s major rail hubs.

Last night, a team sent to Shinjuku Station brought back footage of all the things viewers have come to expect from such reports. The camera’s lens capturing soaked commuters caught without an umbrella and concerned travelers watching the display boards for word about whether their train lines were still running…oh, and also a crazed, sunglass-wearing guitarist who insisted on being heard and in-frame.

Japan
(crazy • funny • news • rain • shinjuku • stations • Tokyo • trains • typhoon)

Typhoon Goni slams Japan, seems to have a vendetta against its cars 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Aug 25, 2015

It stands to reason that you shouldn’t be moving around outdoors during a typhoon. At best you’re going to get soaking wet, and potentially injury-causing flying debris are be a legitimate safety concern.

As if to serve as a reminder, the typhoon currently battering Japan decided to remind everyone to stay put by using its 255-kilometer per hour (158.8 miles per hour) winds to dramatically wreck some Okinawan drivers’ cars.

Japan
(crazy • nature • Okinawa • typhoon)

Japan is bracing itself against the typhoon, finding strange underwear on their porches

Meg Murphy
Jul 19, 2015

Those in the Kyushu and Shikoku regions of Japan have already been hit with the brunt of Typhoon 11, and the rest of us in western Japan are sitting out the torrential rains and winds inside. Typhoons are a yearly happening here, and bring with them flooded streets, mudslides, toppled street signs, and apparently very interesting underwear…

Japan
(funny • funny twitter post • random • typhoon • underwear)

Witness the power a typhoon has over a bag of potato chips in this time-lapse video

Master Blaster
Oct 25, 2014

Some of you may recall the massive Typhoon Vongfong or Typhoon 19 in Japan passing straight across the country a couple weeks ago. The typhoon is said to have had an amazing minimum atmospheric pressure of 900 hectopascals (26.58inHg) at one point.

If you’re anything like us, we were left looking at those figures in awe of how much we don’t remember from our high school science classes. Luckily there’s an easier way to visualize the effect Typhoon 19 had on the air pressure thanks to this video on YouTube featuring an experiment that uses a scale everyone can understand: a bag of potato chips.

Japan
(atmospheric pressure • Calbee • potato chips • typhoon)

Rain? No Problem! Not even impending typhoon can keep away fans of J-POP singer Nicholas Edwards

Kay
Oct 18, 2014

This past Monday was a holiday in Japan, Sports Day to be specific, which meant many of us had a three-day weekend. Unfortunately, it was also the second weekend in a row that Japan was hit by a huge typhoon, causing torrential rain, flooding and disrupted air and land transportation throughout large parts of the country. And while the Tokyo area was by no means the worst affected part of Japan, we still had huge amounts of rain and our share of canceled flights as the typhoon made its way across Japan.

So, Monday, October 13 really wasn’t ideal timing for a certain J-POP singer to be giving a live mini concert outdoors. Well, the singer scheduled to perform that day just happened to be Nicholas Edwards, the American singer who moved to Japan from Oregon, whom we introduced on our site last year. Apparently, his fans were in no way deterred by the approaching typhoon — they weren’t about to miss a chance to see him perform up-close. And we wanted to share with you just how loyal Japanese fans can be!