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		</div><p>Military helicopters have plucked residents from the top floors of their homes after floodwaters inundated a city north of Tokyo.</p>
<p>As heavy rain pummelled Japan for a second day, the Kinugawa River broke through a flood embankment, sending a wall of water into Joso, about 30 miles north east of the capital.</p>
<p>National broadcaster NHK showed aerial footage of rescuers being lowered from helicopters and clambering on to second-floor balconies to reach stranded residents.</p>
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<p>One rescuer descended four times over a 20-minute period to take four people up one-by-one, as a deluge of water swept around the home.</p>
<p>Others waved cloths from their homes as torrents of water around them washed away cars and knocked buildings off their foundations.</p>
<p>Elsewhere in the region, one woman was missing hours after a landslide hit houses at the foot of a steep, wooded incline. Bullet train services were partially suspended.</p>
<p>Tokyo was also drenched with rain, but the hardest-hit area was to the north in Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures.</p>
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<p>The rain came on the heels of Tropical Storm Etau, which caused similar flooding and landslides on Wednesday as it crossed central Japan.</p>
<p>The Fire and Disaster and Management Agency said 15 people were injured by Etau, two seriously, both elderly women who were knocked over by strong winds.</p>
<p>Japan&#8217;s Kyodo news service reported that 39 people had been rescued by Japan&#8217;s Self-Defence Forces and rescue work was continuing.</p>
<p>Akira Motokawa, a city evacuation official, told NHK that rescuers had been unable to respond to the volume of calls for help.</p>
<p>The Transport Ministry estimated that 6,900 households had been affected by the flooding, Kyodo said, adding only about 2,500 of the city’s residents had been evacuated to shelters.</p>
<p>The floodwaters reached at least five miles from the breached embankment.</p>
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