Recovery efforts continue in southwest Japan 1 week after heavy rain

Recovery efforts continued Saturday in Japan's southwestern region of Kyushu, battered by torrential rain a week ago that caused deadly flooding and landslides, leaving 65 people dead and at least 12 people still missing.In some areas, volunteers removed mud and debris and construction of temporary housing for disaster victims got under way.According to the land ministry, 101 rivers in 12 prefectures have overrun their banks, inundating at least 1,550 hectares of land, and there have been 282 cases of damage from landslides, about one-fifth of which occurred in Kumamoto Prefecture, hit hard…READ FULL ARTICLE