Japan flooding threatens rice crop

Satellite view of Japan

Heavy rainfall in south west Japan has caused widespread flooding and mudslides.

Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide said that a slow moving frontal system that developed over eastern China moved north east, bringing high levels of precipitation and damaging thousands of

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