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National › Heavy rain leaves 1 woman dead in Aichi; 140,000 households evacuated

Torrential rain hit central and eastern Japan Thursday through Friday, leaving one woman dead in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, and triggering an evacuation order for 140,000… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Aug 29 2008

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