THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 9, 2023 at 19:11 JST
Passengers crowd JR Hakata Station on July 9 as services were temporarily suspended on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line due to heavy rain. (Photo by Minako Yoshimoto)
IZUMO, Shimane Prefecture--Search efforts continued July 9 for a motorist whose car ended up in a river swollen with torrential rain in western Japan.
Police retrieved the vehicle the man was thought to have been driving about 600 meters downstream from the site where it initially disappeared.
The man, a city resident who is in his 70s, was not found.
The front windshield and other parts of the car were damaged.
On July 8 a family member reported the car had fallen into the Inogawa river, raising the possibility the driver could have lost control on a slippery road covered by rain.
Torrential fell in Shimane Prefecture on July 8. An evacuation advisory was issued to about 370,000 residents comprising 160,000 or so households in the cities of Izumo and Matsue.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said heavy rain was expected to hit locally across wide areas from western Japan to the Tohoku region through July 11 as a seasonal rain front stalls.
The agency is warning residents to take precautions against landslides and river flooding.
It forecast up to 180 millimeters of rain in northern Kyushu in the 24 hours through the morning of July 10 and up to 150 mm of rain in the Chugoku region, which includes Shimane Prefecture, over the same period.
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