ORIGINAL CAPTION: Residential streets are submerged after a river overflowed its banks in Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu. (Masanobu Nakatsukasa / Yomiuri Shimbun)
ORIGINAL CAPTION: An aerial view shows firefighters searching among collapsed houses following a landslide caused by heavy rains in Minamiaso town, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, on July 12, 2012. (Kyodo News)