Record rains in parts of Japan after tropical storm

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 10, 2023 12:27 am

TOKYO: Parts of Japan have been deluged by their heaviest daily rains since records began, officials said on Saturday, with reports of more than 100 landslides after a tropical storm.

Mobara in eastern Chiba prefecture, which borders the capital Tokyo, recorded 392 millimeters of rain overnight into Saturday — the largest amount to hit the city in a 24-hour span since the Japan Meteorological Agency began the survey in 1976.

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