The vast underground chamber and its vast network of tunnels keep the metropolis from flooding, but as global warming causes more severe weather, authorities are having to give the system a major ...

Underneath a stretch of highway north of Tokyo lies an example of Japan’s prowess in engineering solutions to potentially destructive weather events: A network of concrete tunnels and colossal ...

The trend has forced Tokyo authorities to expand underground tunnels to protect the Japanese capital from catastrophic flooding. Advertisement Advertisement ...

This colossal underground system, located in Saitama Prefecture, was designed to mitigate floods by diverting excess water from local rivers into the mighty Edo River. Its scale and complexity have ...

The drive between two of Japan’s major industrial areas used to take around an hour and a half, as it required traversing a 62-mile stretch along Tokyo Bay and through central Tokyo. Today ...

Here, we’ve curated a list of the five longest underwater tunnels ever created around the world, while also exploring the significant role they play in connecting us from one place to another ...

Tokyo Expands Underground 'Cathedral' Complex to Counter Climate Change Rains By Issei Kato and Tom Bateman KASUKABE, Japan (Reuters) - For picture essay, click Just after 5 a.m. on August 30 ...

A STAFF MEMBER of Metropolitan Outer Floodway Management Office demonstrates how to perform checkups inside a pressure-adjusting water tank, part of a complex of underground water discharge tunnels ...

Just after 5 a.m. on August 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 ...

Tokyo already boasts an extensive system of tunnels, drainage channels and storage cisterns, but like much of the world Japan is coping with unprecedented weather due to climate change, forcing it ...

Just after 5 a.m. on August 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 ...