The worst affected areas lie just north of tokyo within the ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures. Media reports suggest as much as 550 mm of rain falling isolated areas during wednesday and thursday with rainfall amount reaching 50 mm per hour.
Japan is painfully exposed to sometimes destructive tropical storm every year. Typhoon Talas, which struck in 2011, left 98 people dead or missing and damaged 4.000 homes, The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which met in Yokohama last year, warned that climate change would likely cause more extreme weather events and greater damage from intesifying typhoons.
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