Torrential rain may hit the northern Japanese prefectures of Aomori and Akita again on Thursday and Friday, after record rain caused flooding in the region, according to NHK World-Japan. Weather officials say warm, damp air keeps flowing towards a rain front hovering near northern Japan
The United States military continued the operations of its F-16 fighter jets in Japan overruling the advice of Tokyo to ground all the machines, as per reports.