Tag: Japan rains

President Duterte offers help to flood-hit Japan

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has offered to help Japan in its rescue and rehabilitation efforts. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the President in a Cabinet meeting revealed doctors, engineers and soldiers would be deployed to areas hit by flooding and landslides in the western part of the country. Roque said according to the President, medicines would also be sent. Over 100 people have died in what has been dubbed as Japan’s worst disaster brought about […]

30 dead as record rains devastate parts of Japan

by Shingo Ito and Sara Hussein Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan — Record rainfall devastated parts of Japan on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, as homes disappeared beneath floodwaters and landslides, and authorities ordered over 1.9 million evacuations. The unprecedented downpours have wreaked havoc primarily in the west of the country, with flash floods and landslides leaving dozens more missing in addition to those killed. A local official in Ehime, in western Japan, said […]