00:00Unprecedented torrential rains lashed cities overnight
00:05East of Tokyo, roads and dozens of homes were flooded, leaving thousands of people stranded.
00:10The stranded ships caused power outages and resulted in the deaths of at least five people.
00:16in addition to one missing person.
00:19According to the Associated Press, the Japan Meteorological Agency lowered its most severe weather alert for
00:25heavy rains in more than a dozen municipalities of the Chiva Prefecture, after
00:30The rain was expected to ease on Friday morning, although more rain was forecast for
00:35the rest of the day.
00:36Photographs and television images showed widespread damage once dawn broke, with
00:42homes, vehicles and sections of railway lines flooded by muddy water.
00:47The Ground Self-Defense Forces reported that they sent buses to pick up some
00:53Four thousand people were stranded overnight at the Soga train station, a
00:58local line that also serves Tokyo Disney.
01:01The operation concluded later on Friday.
01:04The theme park reported no damage.
01:08Thousands of people who were trapped overnight at Narita airport,
01:13which serves the Tokyo region, gradually abandoned the facilities
01:19as rail service partially resumed on Friday morning, although
01:25with delays.
01:26Flights to and from Narita were operating normally on Friday, at a time when
01:32Many people were returning to their homes after the Buddhist holiday week of Obon, in
01:38Japan.
01:39Hundreds of people took refuge overnight in the prefectural government building.
01:44from Chiba.
01:45The prefecture reported that five people were found dead and one remains missing.
01:52Among the victims is a man found floating in a flooded road.
01:57in the city of Ichikawa and a woman who was trapped in a flooded vehicle in the city
02:02from Sakura.
02:04Two other people are presumed dead after being rescued from flooded vehicles in the
02:09cities of Kashiwa and Chiba.
02:11More than 170 homes were flooded in the prefecture and more than 300 people remained displaced.
02:18They were sheltered in public facilities until Friday afternoon, according to authorities.
02:24from Chiba.
02:25Torrential rains and flooding also left some 18,000 people without electricity.
02:31households on Friday morning, a figure that dropped from the 68,000 recorded hours earlier
02:36previously, according to the company Tepco Power Grid.
02:40Record rainfall of 11.5 centimeters was recorded in just one hour in the
02:46Chiba city and 9.7 centimeters in one hour in Sakura, a figure that also constituted
02:53a record.
02:54Takuya Hosomi, an official with the Japan Meteorological Agency, stated at a press conference
03:00During an emergency broadcast on television, unprecedented levels of rainfall were recorded.
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