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Japan: Record Rainfall Strands Thousands at Soga Station in Chiba 2

Record-breaking heavy rainfall caused widespread train suspensions, leaving more than 10,000 people stranded across Chiba Prefecture on Thursday, August 13. Around Soga Station, floodwaters rose to waist height, forcing about 4,000 people to spend the night at the station until morning.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Strands Thousands at Soga Station in Chiba

Record-breaking heavy rainfall caused widespread train suspensions, leaving more than 10,000 people stranded across Chiba Prefecture on Thursday, August 13. Around Soga Station, floodwaters rose to waist height, forcing about 4,000 people to spend the night at the station until morning.

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Aftermath of torrential rain in eastern Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members are mobilized at JR Soga station in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 14, 2026, to transport stranded people after railway operations were disrupted following torrential rain overnight.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Soga, daughters visit Jenkins at Tokyo hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga (R) and her two North Korean-born daughters -- Mika (2nd from R) and Belinda (L) -- head to a bus station on their way to a hospital in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward where Soga's husband Charles Jenkins is staying. (Pool photo)

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Soga arrives in Tokyo to discuss family in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese who were abducted to North Korea in 1978 and are now back in Japan, arrives at JR Tokyo Station on Nov. 26 to meet government officials to discuss the fate of her family in North Korea.

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(3)5 returnees head to hometowns in Fukui, Niigata

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese who returned to Japan on Oct. 15 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978, waves at JR Tokyo Station on Oct. 17 ahead of her departure for her hometown of Mano in Niigata Prefecture.

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Soga, daughters visit Jenkins at Tokyo hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga (R) and her two North Korean-born daughters -- Mika (2nd from R) and Belinda (L) -- head to a bus station on their way to a hospital in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward where Soga's husband Charles Jenkins is staying. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Soga arrives in Tokyo to discuss family in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese who were abducted to North Korea in 1978 and are now back in Japan, arrives at JR Tokyo Station on Nov. 26 to meet government officials to discuss the fate of her family in North Korea. (Kyodo)