Close to nine inches of rain in a single day.
Japan black floor disaster.
Japan recovers from floods after rainfall some 8 63m people across 23 prefectures have been ordered to evacuate.
Arkadiusz podniesinski rex shutterstock one of the classrooms on the first floor in a school.
There is still a mark below the blackboard showing the level of the tsunami wave.
The nuclear disaster at fukushima sent an unprecedented amount of radiation into the pacific.
But before then atomic bomb tests and radioactive waste were contaminating the sea the effects.
Tokyo the forecast was dire.
Officials in kuma a village on the banks of a fast moving river in southwestern japan urged everyone to evacuate.
Japan earthquake and tsunami severe natural disaster that occurred in northeastern japan on march 11 2011 and killed at least 20 000 people.