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people have been killed in Japan in landslides and flooding caused by torrential rain, in what has become one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country since the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 (toll based on updates till July 16, 2018)

500 mm rain inundated the prefectures of Hiroshima, Okayama, and Hyogo. The rain started to pour on July 5 and picked up on July 6. Over that weekend, parts of Japan received between 300 to 500 mm

75,000 responders deployed for search and rescue operations

54 people remain unaccounted for, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said

8 persons were killed in a heat wave that followed, with temperatures of 38.8 and high humidity