(UPDATE) TOKYO — At least one person was killed and seven others were missing on Saturday, officials said, as "unprecedented" rains triggered floods and landslides in Japan's quake-hit Ishikawa prefecture, where authorities told tens of thousands to evacuate.

A dozen rivers in the region, on the west coast of central Japan that was hit by a large quake on New Year's Day, had burst their banks by 11 a.m., Land Ministry official Masaru Kojima said.

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