The airport flooding has revealed a major vulnerability. Opened in 1994, Kansai International Airport is built on an artificial island and operates around the clock. This isn't the first time the ...

An award-winning airport that was built on an artificial island has been subsiding since its construction over 30 years ago, but today climate change is putting the airport at greater risk ...

Kansai International Airport was inundated and is now closed ... winds that escalated in the afternoon, and surging water flooding its runways. Several planes on the tarmac were submerged up ...

In 2018, Kansai Airport was forced to close when it was cut off during Typhoon Jebi. The airport's runways were hit by ...