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		</div><p>Torrential rain that caused flooding and mudslides in Tokyo has left at least 10 people dead and added fresh damage in areas still recovering from recent typhoons.</p>
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<p>Rescue workers found the body of a person who had gone missing in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, after getting caught up in floodwaters while driving.</p>
<p>Another person was unaccounted for in Fukushima, farther north, which is still reeling from damage by Typhoon Hagibis earlier this month.</p>
<p>The death toll from the flooding included nine people in Chiba and one in Fukushima.</p>
<figure id="attachment_142836" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-142836" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-142836" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/B92C803E-B6AB-4334-B075-763F7BBAA8F8.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-142836" class="wp-caption-text">A residential area is flooded after torrential rain in Sakura city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo</figcaption></figure>
<p>While rains and floodwaters subsided, parts of Chiba were still inundated.</p>
<p>About 4,700 homes were out of running water and some train services were delayed or suspended.</p>
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<p>In Midori district in Chiba, mudslides crushed three houses, killing three people who were buried underneath them.</p>
<p>Another mudslide hit a house in nearby Ichihara city, killing a woman.</p>
<p>In Nagara and Chonan towns, four people drowned when their vehicles were submerged.</p>
<figure id="attachment_142838" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-142838" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-142838" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AB1E4EAA-BBBA-400A-8EED-3165418AD9E1.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-142838" class="wp-caption-text">A part of road is damaged by floodwaters after torrential rain in Iwaki</figcaption></figure>
<p>“There was enormous noise and impact, ‘boom’ like an earthquake, so I went outside. Then look what happened. I was terrified,” said a Midori resident who lives near a crushed home.</p>
<p>“Rain was even more intense than the typhoons.”</p>
<p>In Fukushima, a woman was found dead in a park in Soma city after a report that a car was washed away. A passenger was still missing.</p>
<p>Rain also washed out Friday’s second round of the PGA Tour’s first tournament held in Japan, the Zozo Championship in Inzai city. Saturday’s second-round allowed no spectators.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held an emergency task force meeting on Saturday morning and called for “the utmost effort in rescue and relief operations”.</p>
<p>He also urged quicks repairs of electricity, water and other essential services to help restore the lives of the disaster-hit residents.</p>
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<p>The Prime Minister’s Office said the average rainfall for the entire month had fallen in just half a day on Friday.</p>
<p>The downpour came from a low-pressure system above Japan’s main island of Honshu that moved northward later on Friday.</p>
<p>Power was restored on Saturday at most of the 6,000 Chiba households that had lost electricity. About 390 people remained at shelters on Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, Typhoon Hagibis caused widespread flooding and left more than 80 people dead or presumed dead across Japan.</p>
<p>An earlier typhoon in September had devastated Chiba, where more than 50,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, and 100 others flooded.</p>
<p>Friday’s downpour flooded more than 150 homes and damaged several others.</p>
<p>Yoshiki Takeuchi, an office worker who lives in a riverside house in Chiba’s Sodegaura city, said he had just finished temporary repairs to his roof after tiles were blown off by the September typhoon when Friday’s rains hit hard.</p>
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<p>“I wasn’t ready for another disaster like this. I’ve had enough of this, and I need a break,” he told Kyodo News agency.</p>
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