Over the weekend, sustained heavy rainfall hit parts of western and central Japan, causing flash flooding, setting off landslides, submerging floodplains, and forcing more than 2 million residents to evacuate. Today, Japan’s National Police Agency announced at least 200 people had died, and dozens were still missing, in the worst weather-related disaster to hit Japan in more than 30 years. More than 70,000 rescue workers are at work in hard-hit areas searching for survivors as the damage to villages, roads, and infrastructure is being assessed. Hundreds of thousands of homes remain without power or clean water.
Photos: Death Toll Reaches 200 in Devastating Japan Floods
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Local residents receive emergency water at Mihara Daini junior high school, which is acting as an emergency-water supplying station, in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, on July 9, 2018 #
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This picture taken on July 9, 2018, shows a survivor being rescued from his house in the Mabicho district of Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, three days after flooding caused by rain devastated parts of Japan. #
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A car lies in mud as people rest in the shade of a house that is partially buried as they search for missing relatives following a landslide, on July 10, 2018, in Yanohigashi, near Hiroshima, Japan #
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