They call it the "Tokyo Underground Cathedral" and the "Tokyo Parthenon" because of its monumentality. But, in reality, it is a fabulous work of engineering to prevent flooding in Japan's main city.

The weather in some of the world's most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising ...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved movies about giant monsters like Godzilla, Rodan and King Kong. I watched as these fantasy ...

Tokyo, Feb. 26 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo High Court ... to residents in Ibaraki Prefecture hit by the 2015 Kinugawa River flooding. In the lawsuit, residents in flooded areas along the river in the ...

and the Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub, together with experts from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), are organizing a Technical Deep Dive (TDD) on Urban Flood ...