The rainy season appears to have started in wide swaths of eastern, central and western Japan, the weather agency said Wednesday, warning of downpours and natural disasters during the roughly six-week period.
The latest announcement by the Japan Meteorological Agency covers the Chugoku, Kinki, Tokai and Kanto-Koshin regions of Honshu Island as well as Shikoku, another main island of the country.
The agency had earlier said the rainy season was believed to have begun in the rest of southwestern Japan, including Kyushu and Okinawa, meaning that roughly the entire southern half of the country has now entered the rainy season.
Source: ANNnewsCH
