TOKYO, 18th June, 2024 (WAM) -- Heavy rain battered wide areas of Japan on Tuesday, disrupting bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka and prompting the weather agency to urge caution for landslides and floods.
Kyodo News quoted the Japan Meteorological Agency as saying that an eastward-moving front and a low-pressure system on the Pacific Ocean side of the Japanese archipelago brought heavy rainfall of over 50 millimetres per hour in areas such as Kochi and Shizuoka prefectures.