THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 8, 2019 at 16:55 JST
An area near the conjunction of the Natsuigawa river, in the background, and its tributary, the Yoshimagawa river, was inundated by floodwaters in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 13. (Satoru Semba)
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