MORIOKA, Iwate Pref. (Kyodo) Police are searching for two people who were apparently washed away by rivers Monday and Tuesday as heavy rain pelted the Tohoku region. Read more . . . ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Wed, Sep 19 2007
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