KASUKABE, Japan >> Just after 5 a.m. on Aug. 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber, called “the cathedral,” ...

Ninety-six-year-old Takako Ishii, center, assists foreign visitors at the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center in Tokyo's Taito Ward ... refuge at a friend's house, narrowly escaping death.

Just after 5 a.m. on Aug. 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the “cathedral” just north of Tokyo. The gushing water, captured by security cameras, was the rain that was ...

KASUKABE, Japan - Just after 5am on Aug 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the “cathedral” just north of Tokyo ... leading to flooding of homes and even deaths ...

She studied law at the University of Tokyo and joined the labor ministry ... Masaharu Nakagawa, a Lower House member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan who chairs a bipartisan ...

Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the "cathedral" just north of Tokyo ... leading to flooding of homes and even deaths," he said.

TOKYO -- At the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information ... She and her parents fled the intense fires and found refuge at a ...

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Japan’s capital is a beacon of urban luxury, from established international brands to talk-of-the-town boutique newcomers. Lindsay Cohn is a writer, editor, and avid traveler who has visited 45 ...

Deep below the streets of Tokyo, a colossal tunneling machine has ground a path through the earth. Over 13 meters (42 feet) ...