After the fatal typhoon in Japan, the rescue workers continued their use in the floodplains. The death toll rose to 36. Another 17 people were still missing, reported Japanese media.
Hurricane "Hagibis" swept across much of the country over the weekend, leaving a trail of devastation. Numerous rivers burst their banks and flooded entire residential areas. The hardest hit was the province of Nagano, other regions were also struggling with the effects.
On aerial photos of Japanese television, residents were seen swinging white towels out of their flooded windows to attract attention. More than 110,000 police, fire brigade, coast guard and military personnel are involved in the rescue operations, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. "I ask the people to stay alert in the face of landslides and swollen rivers."
Dozens of landslides and mudslides had been lost in much of Japan. 21 rivers had broken through the river banks. According to the Ministry of Industry, 166,000 houses were initially cut off from the power supply on Sunday afternoons. The water supply was partly interrupted.
In the neighboring province of Chiba, where a typhoon raged last month and caused massive blackouts, a dozen houses were destroyed by a sudden tornado.
Hurricane "Hagibis" hit land on Saturday near Tokyo. Later, he moved northeast to that region where 2011 saw an earthquake and tsunami catastrophe involving thousands of dead. There, too, the typhoon caused floods and landslides.
Because of the risk of precipitation, which was threatening to become the worst in about 60 years, the authorities in Tokyo and several other regions had for the first time issued the highest warning level. More than six million inhabitants of the country had been advised to escape from the hurricane - which is called typhoon number 19 in Japan.
Meanwhile, Tokyo Haneda Airport resumed operations on Sunday. Railways and high-speed trains of the Shinkansen type also started again after the operating companies had significantly restricted the operation the day before because of the typhoon.
Authorities had warned that the typhoon could hit Tokyo and other areas of eastern Japan with the worst rains since the devastating hurricane that killed more than 1,200 people in the region in 1958. Many department stores and stores in Tokyo and the surrounding area had closed on Saturday. In some shops in the capital, shelves were swept empty, as many residents as a precaution covered themselves with water and food.