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Three months’ worth of rain fell in just 12 hours in a region east of Tokyo, leading to deadly flooding. At least eight people have died in Japan after record-breaking rain set off flooding across a large region to the east of Tokyo, Japan’s public broadcaster said on Friday. An intense storm pummeled the region, Chiba Prefecture, between Thursday and Friday, with nearly 350 millimeters of rainwater, about 13.7 inches, falling in just 12 hours on the regional capital, also called Chiba, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. That was about three times the average total for the entire month of August, the prefecture’s governor said in a news conference on Friday, and the highest amount to fall on the area in 12 hours since observations began in 1976. The meteorological agency had earlier issued a level-five emergency warning for heavy rain across 22 municipalities in Chiba Prefecture from Thursday night to early Friday morning, warning residents of “unprecedented heavy rainfall” and urging them to take immediate safety measures.
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Latest update from Al Jazeera: Record rainfall leaves four dead, thousands stranded in Japan. Three months’ worth of rain fell in just 12 hours in a region east of Tokyo, leading to deadly flooding. At least eight people have died in Japan after record-breaking rain set off flooding across a large region to the east of Tokyo, Japan’s public broadcaster said on Friday. An intense storm pummeled the region, Chiba Prefecture, between Thursday and Friday, with nearly 350 millimeters of rainwater, about 13.7 inches, falling in just 12 hours on the regional capital, also called Chiba, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. That was about three times the average total for the entire month of August, the prefecture’s governor said in a news conference on Friday, and the highest amount to fall on the area in 12 hours since observations began in 1976. The meteorological agency had earlier issued a level-five emergency warning for heavy rain across 22 municipalities in Chiba Prefecture from Thursday night to early Friday morning, warning residents of “unprecedented heavy rainfall” and urging them to take immediate safety measures.
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Three months’ worth of rain fell in just 12 hours in a region east of Tokyo, leading to deadly flooding. At least eight people have died in Japan after record-breaking rain set off flooding across a large region to the east of Tokyo, Japan’s public broadcaster said on Friday. An intense storm pummeled the region, Chiba Prefecture, between Thursday and Friday, with nearly 350 millimeters of rainwater, about 13.7 inches, falling in just 12 hours on the regional capital, also called Chiba, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. That was about three times the average total for the entire month of August, the prefecture’s governor said in a news conference on Friday, and the highest amount to fall on the area in 12 hours since observations began in 1976. The meteorological agency had earlier issued a level-five emergency warning for heavy rain across 22 municipalities in Chiba Prefecture from Thursday night to early Friday morning, warning residents of “unprecedented heavy rainfall” and urging them to take immediate safety measures.
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