Japan: Roads Turn Into River After Intense Rainfall In Tokyo Area 4

About 100 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday evening, July 31. Videos posted on social media show roads and highways flooded like a river across the region.

Japan: Roads Turn Into River After Intense Rainfall In Tokyo Area 3

About 100 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday evening, July 31. Videos posted on social media show roads and highways flooded like a river across the region.

Japan: Roads Turn Into River After Intense Rainfall In Tokyo Area 2

About 100 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday evening, July 31. Videos posted on social media show roads and highways flooded like a river across the region.

Japan: Roads Turn Into River After Intense Rainfall In Tokyo Area

About 100 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday evening, July 31. Videos posted on social media show roads and highways flooded like a river across the region.

Disaster drills in Japan

Disaster drills in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A police officer talks to a driver on Sept. 1, 2011, on congested Route 15 in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The police held a large-scale drill that blocked about 100 highways in Tokyo to practice monitoring road traffic and ensuring the passage of emergency vehicles on the same day under a scenario of a major earthquake having occurred.

A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

A row of Japanese cedar trees along the Nikko Road

Cedar trees line a street near present-day Imaichi City. Three cedar-lined highways led to Nikko: Onari (Nikko) Highway, Reiheishi Highway, and Aizu-nishi Highway. A total distance of about 37km, most of the former roads are now in Imaichi City. Since the sunlight is shining from the left, this photograph was taken facing toward Nikko.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐100‐0]

Disaster drills in Japan

Disaster drills in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A police officer talks to a driver on Sept. 1, 2011, on congested Route 15 in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The police held a large-scale drill that blocked about 100 highways in Tokyo to practice monitoring road traffic and ensuring the passage of emergency vehicles on the same day under a scenario of a major earthquake having occurred. (Kyodo)