Heavy rain triggers evacuation warnings in Japan

Tokyo (AFP) June 2, 2023

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Japan were urged to evacuate on Friday as tropical storm Mawar brought heavy rain and caused several rivers to overflow. The eye of the storm, which has weakened from a typhoon, was 170 kilometres (105 miles) east of the country's southern Amami island by the afternoon. A non-compulsory evacuation order was issued to more than 410,000 people in Toyot