Record Rainfall Floods Japan

Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers search for missing people at an area devastated by heavy rains in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture, July 16, 2012. Japanese weather officials are warning of more torrential rain in northern and western Japan.

A destroyed car lies near collapsed houses after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Minamiaso town, Kumamoto prefecture.

Soldiers search for missing people at an area hit by landslides caused by heavy rains in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture. Evacuation orders were issued to 40,000 people in the Kyushu area.

An elderly woman is carried on a stretcher to airlift to a hospital in Yame, southwest Japan, July 16, 2012.

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

An aerial view shows a flooded residential area in Kyoto.

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

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

Japan's Self-Defense Force soldiers search for missing people at an area devastated by heavy rains at Ichinomiya-machi town in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture.