In the depths of Japan's peak holiday season, nature delivered a reckoning that even seasoned emergency officials had never witnessed: more than 360 millimeters of rain fell upon Chiba prefecture in a single day, turning the arteries of one of the world's most connected nations into rivers of disruption. At least four lives were lost, thousands of travelers found themselves marooned at Narita airport, and tens of thousands of homes fell dark — a reminder that the elaborate systems human beings construct to move and shelter one another remain, in the end, subject to the older forces of the eart
Record rainfall strands thousands at Tokyo's Narita as Japan battles deadly flooding
At least four confirmed deaths including one person trapped in submerged vehicle, one person missing, hundreds sheltering in evacuation centers overnight.