Record rainfall in Japan has produced mudslides and flash floods forcing hundreds of thousands to flee and leaving at least 32 dead or missing.
Heavy Rains Trigger Flash Floods, Mudslides in Japan
Japan Self Defense Forces 8th Division / Reuters
Japan's Self-Defense Force soldiers search for missing people in an area devastated by heavy rains at Ichinomiya-machi town in Aso, Kumamoto prefecture on July 15, 2012.