双语新闻：破纪录豪雨过后日本开始清理工作 Japan Begins Cleanup after Record Rains

16 July, 2012

日本西南部居民在经历四天破纪录豪雨所引起的大面积水灾后，陆续返回家园。

成千上万的九州岛居民星期一开始进行清理工作，因水灾和泥石流造成的死亡人数上升到至少27人。

星期天，日本自卫队向受困在日本西南部福冈县的3千多人空投补给品。

每小时超过90毫米的大雨降在日本西部的京都府，造成几百个住家被水淹没。

日本气象厅星期天表示，最糟的情况已经过去，但是预测某些地区直到星期一结束前，还会降大雨。

Residents of southwestern Japan are returning home after four days of record rainfall that caused massive flooding.

Hundreds of thousands of people on the island of Kyushu began to clean up Monday, as the death toll from flooding and landslides reached at least 27.

Sunday, Japanese troops airlifted supplies to more than 3,000 thousand people who were stranded in Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan.

More than 90 millimeters of rain an hour fell in Kyoto prefecture in western Japan, flooding hundreds of homes.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said Sunday that the worst is over, but predicted more heavy rain in some areas through Monday.