Monday, July 16, 2012

Asia - Voice of America: Japan Begins Cleanup after Record Rains, Flooding

Asia - Voice of America
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Japan Begins Cleanup after Record Rains, Flooding
Jul 16th 2012, 11:43

Residents of southwestern Japan are returning home after four days of record rainfall that caused massive flooding. Hundreds of thousands of people on the island of Kyushu began to clean up Monday, as the death toll from flooding and landslides reached at least 27. Sunday, Japanese troops airlifted supplies to more than 3,000 people who were stranded in Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan. More than 90 millimeters of rain an hour fell in Kyoto prefecture in western Japan, flooding ...

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