http://www.newsweek.com/death-toll-floods-japan-just-hit-176-1019724

The death toll from historic floods in Japan climbed to 176. Rescue workers struggled on Wednesday to search for dozens of people who are still missing after muddy floodwaters surged through the streets in the country’s southwest.

The record downpours triggered a series of mudslides around Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures, as well as flooding homes across a wide swath of the region from Friday afternoon to early Saturday, raising Japan's highest death toll in a rain-related natural disaster since 1982, The Japan Times reported.