INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
country rose to 74, public broadcaster NHK said, many drowned by flooding after scores of rivers burst their banks.Public broadcaster NHK
said 12 were missing and more than 220 injured after Typhoon Hagibis lashed through the Japanese archipelago at the weekend
Throughout the eastern half of the main island of Honshu, 52 rivers had flooded over.Residents in Fukushima prefecture, which has seen the
highest number of casualties, were busy dumping water-damaged furniture and rubbish onto the streets
Many elderly remained in evacuation centers, unable to clean up their homes.In Date city, not far from the site of the nuclear disaster in
2011, farmer Masao Hirayama piled damp books in the street in front of his house, adding to a mound of rubbish from the neighborhood.He said
the water had reached about 2 meters (6.6 feet) deep in his house, when he and his son were rescued by boat and taken to an evacuation
His wife and grandchildren had stayed with relatives through the storm."I feel down," Hirayama, 70, said, adding that the flood had swept
away all his green houses and farming equipment
"All that is left is the land."Hirayama said he had rebuilt his house in 1989, raising the ground level following a flood in 1986
His family plan to live on the second floor until he can make repairs, which he reckons could take three months.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
said the government would spend 710 million yen ($6.5 million) to facilitate disaster relief
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