In Japan Killer typhoon creates more misery

TOKYO - Japan braced for more heavy rain and flooding Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon hit the country in seven years, climbed to 34. Rescuers searching for 55 others were missing and tens of thousands of families struggling without electricity or telephone service.Typhoon Talas, which was later downgraded to a tropical storm lashed coastal areas of destructive winds and record-setting rains the weekend before moving offshore into the sea from Japan. Thousands were stranded because the washed out bridges, railways and roads. 

Destruction of more misery, the nation still reeling from the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, six months ago. In one of his first acts in office of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda - Talas was sworn in just one day before the land - promised that the government will provide as much help as fast as its predecessor, Naoto Can could.His, was forced out because of public anger over a large part of the response to the tsunami that left nearly 21,000 people dead or missing, and touched by the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. 

"We will do everything we can to rescue people and search for the missing," Noda said.The typhoon was the worst to hit Japan since 2004, when 98 people were killed or disappeared. This caused all this damage Kii Peninsula, central Japan, southwest of Tokyo, and hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the tsunami ravaged South coast.The Japan Meteorological Agency predicted more rain on Tuesday in the northern and western Japan, which already wet soil caused by fear for more landslides and floods. 

The extent of damage to the typhoon was still growing Monday.Rescuers and reconnaissance teams divided into the hardest-hit areas to search for survivors of the flood, or people stranded in areas that are considerably less extensive recalls were hurt by debris, showed mud-covered wasteland created tsunami.Television footage washed out bridges and trains, all neighborhoods inundated by swollen rivers, and the police to pull the rope through the terrified survivors to their homes awash in spooky waters.Nearly 200,000 households remained without power Monday afternoon, according to Kyodo. 

During the search effort Monday, rescuers back a dozen more bodies, bringing the confirmed death toll 34, according to the government headquarters in an emergency. Evacuation alerts about 100,000 people remained in place, even though the storm itself was no longer the country. 

Most of the dead were in Wakayama prefecture (state), Seiji Yamamoto, said an official. Twenty-two people were killed and 22 people did Wakayama alone. "There are so many ways that are difficult to count them all," he said. "Hundreds of homes were flooded." The body of a woman found Sunday in the city Nachikatsuura confirmed that the mayor in a 24-year-old daughter, who had been her betrothal ceremony, the groom later the same day, Kyodo reported. The mayor's wife was also torn away, and still missing. "I do not have a place to sleep, when I go home today. My family is not," he quoted the mayor said Shinichi Moto magazine. 

In the nearby prefecture of Nara, fear more landslides, rain-soaked fields of the delayed rescue efforts. Rain and wind are recorded over a wide cuts Japan main island, but no significant damage occurred sunami northeast.As destroyed by the typhoon approached, evacuation orders or notices issued to 460 000 people. At least 3,600 people remain stranded by the flooded rivers, landslides and collapsed bridges, Kyodo reported.The center of 12 season typhoon crossed the southern island of Shikoku and central Honshu main island overnight on Saturday. Then, moving slowly - at a pace almost jogging - the North Sea off the west coast of Japan's meteorological agency said. Talas is a word, the Philippines, which means "edge".