24070 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/japan-aftermath-tsunami-like-floods-that-left-least-3-dead-23-missing-photos-1519373At least three people have died and 23 are missing after floods swept houses off their foundations and crushed them under landslides across Japan, forcing more than 100,000 to flee. The waters are slowly retreating in the worst-hit city of Joso after washing houses away, sometimes with their owners still inside, in scenes reminiscent of a tsunami.Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:59:00 +0200ibtimes-uk-fc3a08a781b1ac3bd98611d57324dcdc20150911135900http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/story/21410341Bei der verheerenden Flutkatastrophe im Osten Japans sind mindestens drei Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Rettungskräfte suchten am Freitag in der überschwemmten Stadt Joso in der Provinz Ibaraki weiter nach 23 Vermissten, darunter zwei achtjährige Kinder.Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:49:00 +020020min-56b8af20ac4fc0a9830bbca1743a311020150911134900http://www.nicematin.com/monde/japon-3-morts-au-moins-26-disparus-dans-des-inondations.2335015.htmlJoso (Japon) (AFP) Des milliers de sauveteurs étaient mobilisés vendredi au nord de Tokyo pour venir en aide à des centaines d'habitants prisonniers des eaux et retrouver au moins 26 disparus après des pluies diluviennes qui ont déjà provoqué la mort de trois personnes.Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:46:00 +0200nicematin-72e8b969ffd8bb81148f5b5996eb9fc720150911134600http://news.sky.com/story/1550732/search-for-missing-as-japan-flooding-spreadsTrees were toppled and houses washed away - sometimes with their owners still inside. Hisako Sekimoto spent the night on the second floor of her flooded house with her husband and three cats before being rescued by a military helicopter early on Friday. "There was no time to escape, all we could do was go upstairs.Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:46:00 +0200skynews-4b137cffba5ed1861454ba0d7728508220150911134600