As much as 30,000 other people in two towns in central Japan had been ordered to evacuate after climate forecasters warned of primary flooding led to through heavy rain.
About 18,000 other people within the town of Wajima and some other 12,000 in Suzu had been advised to hunt refuge in Ishikawa prefecture, Honshu island.
The Kyodo Information site has printed an image appearing a whole side road flooded in Wajima.
The Japan Meteorological Company (Jma) has issued a heavy rain emergency – the perfect alert degree – for portions of the prefecture.
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK quoted govt officers as pronouncing 12 rivers within the prefecture had breached their banks.
The area remains to be getting better after a perilous magnitude 7.5 earthquake on New Yr’s Day.