THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 16, 2021 at 14:54 JST
Emergency rescue personnel work at the scene of a landslide in the Kawagishi-Higashi district of Okaya, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 15. (Provided by the Nagano prefectural government’s Suwa construction office)
At least four people have died and five are still unaccounted for following record-breaking rainfall that had continued to pound western and eastern Japan since Aug. 11. [Read More]
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