Downpour hits Amami

Downpour hits Amami

TATSUGO, Japan - The garden of a house looks like a river following heavy rain in the town of Tatsugo on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2011. (Kyodo)

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