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Heavy rain soaks eastern Japan, prompting highest-level warning

Heavy rain soaks eastern Japan, prompting highest-level warningWorldPing

Torrential rain pummeled eastern Japan on Thursday, triggering landslides and power outages and prompting the weather authority to issue its highest-level heavy rain warning for the region for the first time.

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