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Rescuers prepare to start a search mission for missing person at the site of a landslide in Kumano town in Hiroshima prefecture. (Photo: AP)

Nearly 100 dead, dozens missing in aftermath of Japan floods

Rescuers raced to find survivors as rains gave way to scorching heat and fuelled fears of heatstroke in areas cut off...

9 July 2018 12:56 PM IST

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the rescue efforts a battle with time. (Photo: AP)

Death toll rises to 48, at least 100 missing in Japan floods

Authorities warned landslides could strike even after rain subsides as the calamity shaped up to be potentially the...

8 July 2018 9:10 AM IST

A car leans against a building following a heavy rain in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Monday, July 6, 2020. (AP)

Desperate searches as dozens feared dead in Japan floods

At least 36 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday

6 July 2020 8:53 AM IST

Houses are collapsed and half-buried in the mud following the flooding caused by heavy rain in Asakura, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan. (Photo: AP)

Death toll rises to 25 in Japan floods

Further downpours were predicted to pound Kyushu after swathes of the southwestern island were devastated last week by...

11 July 2017 10:45 AM IST