Flooding and landslides have killed at least 60 people and left dozens missing in western areas of Japan.
Most of the deaths have occurred in Hiroshima prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain since Thursday.
Hundreds of homes have been damaged.
About 1.5 million people have been ordered to leave their homes and three million more advised to do so.
Authorities say it could potentially be the worst weather disaster Japan has seen in decades.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the authorities were facing a “race against time” to save and evacuate people.
Thousands of police, firefighters and soldiers are taking part in search-and-rescue operations.
Some of the victims have been buried alive by landslides, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reports.
In the town of Motoyama, about 600km (370 miles) west of the capital Tokyo, 583mm (23in) of rain fell between Friday morning and Saturday morning, Japan’s meteorological agency said.
More rain is expected over the next few days.
Kyoto, about 300km to the east of Hiroshima, has also been hit by downpours.
Local resident Manabu Takeshita told the Japan Times website: “Anybody living near the river has got to be nervous because typhoon season is just really starting.”
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North Korea: US is making ‘gangster-like’ demands on denuclearisation
North Korea has accused the US of using “gangster-like” tactics to push it towards nuclear disarmament after a fresh round of high-level talks.
It branded the US attitude at the meeting as “extremely troubling.”
The statement, by an unnamed foreign ministry official, gave a starkly different account from one provided by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just hours before.
He had said progress was made during his two-day visit to Pyongyang.
It is the first time he has visited North Korea since a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
The leaders’ meeting ended with a promise from Mr. Kim to work towards denuclearisation, but details on how this will be achieved remain thin.
A key aim of Mr. Pompeo during his visit was to firm up North Korea’s commitment to disarmament.
But the North Korean statement, carried by the official KCNA news agency, said the US had gone against the spirit of the summit by putting unilateral pressure on the country to abandon its nuclear weapons.
“We had anticipated the US side would come with a constructive idea, thinking we would take something in return,” the North Korean statement said, warning its “resolve for denuclearisation… may falter.”
“The US is fatally mistaken if it went to the extent of regarding that [North Korea] would be compelled to accept, out of its patience, demands reflecting its gangster-like mindset,” it added.
At the talks, Mr. Pompeo did not meet with Mr. Kim, but instead with Kim Yong-chol, who is seen as his right-hand man.
In his assessment, Mr. Pompeo gave little away, but he said they had discussed at length a timeline for disarmament, including the destruction of a missile engine testing facility.
“These are complicated issues, but we made progress on almost all of the central issues, some places a great deal of progress, other places there’s still more work to be done,” he said.
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Wiltshire Police officer given all-clear over Novichok fear
A police officer tested for possible exposure to a nerve agent in Salisbury has been given the medical all-clear.
The Wiltshire Police officer was treated a short distance from Amesbury where Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, fell ill last Saturday.
They remain in a critical condition after being exposed to Novichok by handling a contaminated item.
The officer was cleared at Salisbury District Hospital.
Wiltshire Police confirmed that one of their officers had been “seeking medical advice” at the hospital as part of “a precautionary measure.”
A Salisbury District Hospital spokesperson said: “There is nothing to suggest there is any wider risk to anyone at the hospital.”
The spokesperson added that the hospital had “the ability to carry out the appropriate specialist tests.”
“Salisbury District Hospital has seen a number of members of the public who have come to the hospital with health concerns since this incident started and none have required any treatment.
“We would like to reiterate the advice from Public Health England (PHE) that the risk to the wider public remains low,” the spokesperson added.
The emergency department at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon where the officer initially attended had been closed but reopened at about 22:00 BST.
An operation into the poisoning of Mr. Rowley and Ms. Sturgess is expected to take months as police examine more than 1,300 hours of CCTV footage.
Police are conducting a search for the item believed to have exposed the pair to Novichok.
