Some provinces are under evacuation alerts as experts warn of 'unprecedented' rainfall.
Nearly two million people have been urged to evacuate their homes amid heavy rainfall in parts of Japan.
One woman has died and her husband and daughter are missing after a landslide destroyed two homes in Nagasaki prefecture. "They are carefully searching for the missing residents, while watching out for further mudslides as the heavy rain continues," a local official told the AFP news agency.
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