Japan braced for further downpours on Sunday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left at least six dead.
Residents returned to check on their mud-covered homes in the country’s southwest, where nearly two million people were urged to seek shelter on Saturday as dozens of rivers overflowed.
Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan and elsewhere, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water.Just over one metre of rain was seen over four days in Ureshino, a town in Saga prefecture. The same town recorded 3.3 metres of rain in the whole of 2020, and 2.3 metres in 2019.
Landslide warnings have been issued in 372 municipalities across Japan after 44 were detected — a quarter of them in Nagasaki — the land ministry said.In the Nagano region of central Japan, a 41-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 12 and 7, died in a landslide, a local official told AFP.
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