At least 14 people were killed as a powerful typhoon sparked mudslides which destroyed homes on a Japanese island before sweeping up the Pacific coast, grounding hundreds of flights and disrupting Tokyo’s transport network during rush hour.

Authorities in Japan have suspended rescue work today inside a long Japanese road tunnel after concrete ceiling slabs fell onto moving vehicles and killed nine people.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

At least seven people were missing and several feared dead after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

In Japan, rescuers have recovered five bodies from a motorway tunnel which collapsed this morning.

At least seven people were missing today after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.

A strong earthquake has rattled north eastern Japan, leaving seven people injured. No tsunami warning was issued.

An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale rocked Japan’s eastern coast today, unleashing a 33ft (10m) tsunami which swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland.

A powerful typhoon knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and cut off air and sea transportation as it headed directly toward Tokyo today, threatening to bring floods and landslides after dumping heavy rains on central Japan.

Traumatised townspeople huddled in evacuation centres after an earthquake flattened homes and battered a nuclear power plant in the Japanese city of Kashiwazaki.

Thousands of people crowded evacuation centres today amid fears of mudslides and aftershocks after a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s northwest coast.

A typhoon expected to hit Tokyo missed the capital and moved toward north-eastern Japan today after leaving five people dead and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.

Authorities hailed Japan’s new earthquake alert system a success today after it allowed officials to issue a tsunami warning just one minute after a magnitude-6.9 quake jolted the country’s coast.

EMERGENCY workers struggled to rush food and blankets to evacuation centres as strong aftershocks jolted an earthquake-shattered swath of northern Japan yesterday, killing 25 people and driving 100,000 from their homes.

The death toll from Japan’s deadliest typhoon in more than a decade rose to 67 today as rescue workers digging through sludge from mudslides found four more bodies and the nation tried to assess the extent of damage. Twenty-one people were still missing.

JAPAN’S deadliest typhoon in more than two decades killed 66 people, news reports said yesterday as rescuers searched frantically for 22 still missing in floods and landslides.

Japan’s deadliest storm in more than a decade unleashed flash floods that washed away entire hillsides, killing up to 51 people and leaving at least 30 people missing before it veered east into the Pacific Ocean today.

A POWERFUL earthquake rocked northeastern Japan yesterday, knocking out power, causing a landslide and disrupting road and rail traffic. Buildings swayed in Tokyo, hundreds of miles away.