Residents of southwestern Japan are returning home after four days of record rainfall that caused massive flooding.
Record Rainfall Floods Japan

༥
An aerial view shows flooded residential area after a bank of the Yabegawa river collapsed caused by heavy rains in Yanagawa, Fukuoka prefecture.

༦
An aerial view shows a flooded residential area in Kyoto.

༧
Residential streets are submerged after a river overflowed its banks in Kumamoto, Kumamoto prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu.

༨
People wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rains in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan.