Video footage taken in Nagahama Shiga Prefecture shows an area of the city flooded after the Anegawa river overflowed its banks on Aug 8 following a...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Video footage taken in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, shows an area of the city flooded after the Anegawa river overflowed its banks on Aug. 8 following a day of heavy rains. Brought by slow-moving Typhoon No. 5, the rains began on the morning of Aug. 7 and the amount  of rain in Maibara, upriver city of the Anegawa, reached 308 millimeters by 1 a.m. on Aug. 8., according to prefecture monitors. The river at Nagahama was overwhelmed soon after midnight. No injuries were reported during the flooding and an evacuation order issued by the city at 2:12 a.m. was lifted at 7:10 a.m.", "Image Copyright": "2017 Asahi Shimbun"}