Overview

• On August 14, recovery teams found a woman’s body in Kumamoto City’s Midorikawa River and a man’s remains offshore Munakata during flood-related searches.
• The Aug. 10–11 downpour in northern Kyushu has left three confirmed dead and four people unaccounted for in Kumamoto and Fukuoka prefectures.
• Kumamoto applied the Disaster Relief Law to Kosa Town, increasing prefectural aid coverage to six cities and five towns affected by flooding.
• Osaka police are treating the discovery of an infant’s body partially buried in Ogimachi Park on August 15 as a potential death-abandonment case.
• Law-enforcement actions elsewhere include Gifu Prefectural Police arresting two suspects on body-abandonment charges and Nagano prosecutors moving to indict a suspect in the January station killings.