1 dead, 5 missing in torrential rain in northeastern Japan

[AsahinaKimi]

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- One person has died, five others are missing and about 400,000 people have been asked to evacuate in Niigata and Fukushima prefectures after torrential rain hammered the northeast region of Japan, authorities said Saturday.

Many spots logged record-high rainfall, causing floods and landslides, and stranding small communities. The Japan Meteorological Agency has said the total downpour already exceeded that which hit the two prefectures in July 2004, leaving 16 people dead and 83 others injured.

Total rainfall over a 72-hour period until noon reached 623 millimeters in Kamo in Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast and reached 700 mm in Tadami in Fukushima, east of Niigata, according to the agency. Both figures were more than double the average monthly precipitation there for July.

In Tokamachi in Niigata, 67-year-old Eiichi Murayama was found dead after his car was washed away in a river, police said. Five others went missing in both prefectures.

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それは決して雨が降る。それは注ぐ。 It never rains..it pours.Sore wa kesshite ame ga furu. Sore wa sosogu.