Water outage continues in Japan flood-hit areas, death toll tops 170

Hundreds of thousands of people affected by devastating floods and landslides in western Japan continued to struggle with water outages on Wednesday, while the death toll from the country's worst rain-related disaster in decades topped 170 with scores more still missing.At least 254,084 homes are still without water in Hiroshima, Ehime and Okayama, the prefectures hit hardest by last week's torrential rains, with no prospects of supply being restored quickly, local authorities and the welfare ministry said.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who inspected damage in Okayama on Wednesday, told reporte…READ FULL ARTICLE