Areas are inundated in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2020.

Areas are swamped in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2020.|Image Credit:
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Japan’s Meteorological Agency reduced its alert from the highest level it had actually initially published.

Japan asked countless individuals to evacuate their homes on its southern island of Kyushu, media stated on Saturday, following extraordinary torrential rains in which 15 people are feared dead and 9 missing out on.

With the region facing the danger of additional floods and landslides, authorities told 92,200 families in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima to leave their homes, the Kyodo ne