More than 100,000 rescuers - including 31,000 troops - clawed through debris overnight Sunday to Monday to reach people trapped after torrential rain caused landslides and filled rivers until they burst their banks.The destruction forced the Rugby World Cup being hosted by Japan to cancel several games, but the"Brave Blossoms", as the national team is known, lifted spirits with a stunning 28-21on Sunday that puts them into the quarter-finals of the tournament for the first time.
An aerial view shows a local resident is rescued by a Japan Self-Defence Force helicopter from residential areas flooded by the Chikuma river, caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Nagano, central Japan. Fire department workers evacuate residents from a flooded area in Date, Fukushima prefecture, after Typhoon Hagibis swept through central and eastern Japan.
At the storm's peak, more than seven million people were placed under non-compulsory evacuation orders.
Sad to see my favourite country going through this ! Keep safe!
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