ON THE ISLAND OF KUYSHU Some 230,000 people displaced because of heavy rain in Japan

Around 230,000 people have been forced to flee their homes along this Friday on the island of Kyushu, the third largest of Japan located in the south, because of the heavy rains that drench the region. Only in Fukuoka prefecture, north of this island, some 121,000 people have been evacuated by the Japanese authorities. At least 41,000 homes have been flooded in this region, more than 58,000 in the whole island of Kyushu. Japan's Meteorological Agency warned that the intensity of rainfall will continue or even increase in some parts of northern Kyushu, including the Fukuoka, the region most affected. Since Wednesday, at least 20 people have died and seven were missing in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures because of landslides and floods caused by heavy rains, according to news agency picked Nippon Kyodo. The governor of the prefecture of Oita, Katsusada Hirose, has requested the help of self-defense unit in the field of Nippon Army after Kagetsu arramblara river with the town of Hita.