Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan and elsewhere, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water. He said one person was seriously injured and seven suffered minor injuries. On Friday, top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno warned of “extremely heavy rainfall with thunderstorms” in a wide area over the next three days.

Shinkansen bullet trains were still suspended between Tokyo and Nagoya, according to Japan Railway, but public broadcaster NHK said they would resume around noon. Some 4,000 households in regions close to Tokyo were suffering power outages, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said. In central and western Japan, many evacuation orders - which are non-compulsory, even at the highest level - were downgraded Saturday as rains eased.īut new warnings were issued in areas close to Tokyo early morning over flooding risks. In western Wakayama, where several rivers burst their banks, officials told AFP that they had resumed the search for one man and one woman missing in the region. The inundation has been caused by the remnants of former Typhoon Mawar, now downgraded to a tropical storm.Ī rescue team in central Aichi region’s Toyohashi, where the country’s highest-level evacuation alert was issued Friday, “found a man approximately in his 60s in a submerged car but he was later confirmed dead,” a city official told AFP.

Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person and left two missing, authorities said Saturday, with thousands issued evacuation warnings and left without power. People use their umbrellas to shelter from the rain as they walk through Tokyo's Shibuya district - Copyright AFP Yuichi YAMAZAKI

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