(UPDATE) TOKYO: A man was found dead in a flooded car as torrential rains lashed northern Japan on Sunday, a week after seven people were killed in similar weather in the country's southwest.

A police spokesman told Agence France-Presse they had "confirmed the death" of a man who was inside a car found submerged in a rice paddy in northern Akita prefecture, without giving further details.

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