Japanese flood disaster frays resilience of elderly victims


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Oct 2019

A man cleans debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Yanagawamachi district Date City Fukushima prefecture Japan October 16 2019. REUTERSSoe Zeya Tun

A man cleans debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Yanagawamachi district, Date City, Fukushima prefecture, Japan October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

DATE, Japan (Reuters) - When a river in Japan's Fukushima prefecture overflowed on Sunday at the height of Typhoon Hagibis, 700 homes were flooded, many belonging to elderly residents too frail to clean up and repair their water-logged houses.

Fukushima is no stranger to disaster. In 2011, the area was struck by an earthquake that unleashed a tsunami on the coast and destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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