TOKYO, July 13 (Xinhua) — Torrential rain pounded areas going through the Sea of Japan late on Wednesday, inflicting mudslides and leaving a metropolis meeting member in Toyama Prefecture lacking, native media reported.
Police are looking for Nobuhiko Akaike, a member of the Nanto meeting, on Thursday, fearing he might have been caught in a mudslide when he was shifting round a neighborhood within the metropolis of Nanto, Kyodo News mentioned.
The prefectures of Ishikawa and Toyama on the Sea of Japan coast noticed bands of heavy rain clouds develop on Wednesday evening because of the seasonal rain entrance located over the Japanese archipelago, mentioned the report.
Ishikawa Prefecture logged a file six-hour rainfall complete of 199 millimeters throughout the evening in Kahoku, whereas Toyama Prefecture registered a downpour of 170.5 millimeters in Kamiichi, one other file excessive, it added.
A Nanto resident reported a mudslide at round 2:10 a.m. native time on Thursday, and a home was discovered destroyed close by. Mudslides additionally reduce off roads in neighboring Oyabe, leaving 41 households and their 101 complete residents remoted, Kyodo News mentioned, citing native police.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has forecast heavy downpours with thunder in western Japan, significantly areas going through the Sea of Japan, on Thursday and in jap Japan by means of Friday.