At least six people have died and 10 others are missing after heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides along a peninsula in Japan that is still recovering from a deadly earthquake at the start of the year.
Heavy rain pounded Ishikawa from Saturday, with more than 540 millimetres recorded in the city of Wajima over 72 hours, the heaviest continuous rain since comparative data became available.
The prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has instructed officials to monitor the damage and cooperate with local authorities as the region was still in the process of recovering from January's earthquake when the rain arrived.
Flood waters inundated emergency housing built for those who had lost their homes in the New Year's Day quake, which killed at least 374 people, according to Ishikawa government figures.
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