Update 30 August: From Kirk Patterson – Konpira Consulting, based in Kyushu: “As it turns out, Shanshan seems not to have had any significant impact on marinas and their boats....

The slow-moving Typhoon Khanun threatens to worsen the heaviest rains in Beijing in more than a century, with the deluge causing the deaths of at least 34 people in China...

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Image from the Japan Times A major clear-up operation has started on Okinawa, in the southwestern tip of the Japanese archipelago, to remove pumice stone which has accumulated along the...