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In this July 12, 2012 photo, residential streets are submerged after a river overflowed its banks in Kumamoto, Kumamoto prefecture on Japan's southern island of Kyushu. Heavy rains hit southern Japan, triggering flashfloods, mudslides and destroying dozens of homes. Masanobu Nakatsukasa/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP
People wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rains in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, on July 12, 2012. Record-setting rainfalls have caused flooding and landslides in parts of southwestern Japan, leading to evacuation orders for thousands of residents, with authorities fearing that some people may have been buried alive, local media reported. Kyodo/Reuters
A loading shovel removes dirt and trees covered on a road after heavy rain in Yame, southwest Japan, on July 16, 2012. Most of the quarter-million people who fled massive flooding in southwest Japan were able to return home by Monday, but the danger had not fully passed from record rains that have killed at least 28 people. Kyodo/AP
Riverbanks are covered with mud and woods carried by floodwater in Takeda, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 12, 2012. Heavy rains hit southern Japan, triggering flashfloods, mudslides and destroying dozens of homes. Kyodo/AP
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force personnel on rubber boat search for missing people in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 14, 2012. Kyodo/AP
Policemen search for missing people at collapsed houses following a landslide caused by heavy rains in Minamiaso town, Kumamoto prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo on July 12, 2012. Kyodo/Reuters
Workers shovel muddy water out of a banquet room of a hotel in Aso, on July 14, 2012. Kyodo/AP
A elderly woman is carried on a stretcher to airlift to a hospital, in Yame, southwest Japan, on July 16, 2012. Yame, a city of 69,000 in Fukuoka prefecture, was hard hit by heavy rain and dozens of people were stranded by the flooding. Kyodo/AP
Water breaks Yabe River's embankment in Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, on July 14, 2012. Kyodo/AP
In this aerial photo, houses along flooded River Kagetsu are destroyed by floodwaters in Hita city, Oita Prefecture, southern Japan, because of torrential rain. Kyodo News reported a total of around 20,000 residents of Hita and the Fukuoka town of Koge were instructed to evacuate. Kyodo/AP
A woman looks around a room in her flood-damaged home in Kumamoto City, on July 13, 2012. Kyodo/AP
Cars wade through flood water caused by heavy rain in Hita, Oita Prefecture, on July 14, 2012. Ayako Wada//Oita Godo Shimbun/Kyodo News/AP
Japan's Self Defense Force members gather to search for missing residents in the rain, in Aso city, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 13, 2012. /Kyodo/AP
Police officers and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel (top left) watch rescue workers (r.) search for missing people in Takeda, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 13, 2012. Kyodo/AP
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force personnel look at trees carried by floodwater following heavy rain in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 14, 2012. Kyodo/AP
A road along a river is partially collapsed in Yame, on July 15, 2012. Kyodo/AP
A residential area is submerged by a torrential rain overnight in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 15, 2012. Kyodo/AP
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Japan's army has taken over flood rescue and cleanup operations, drawing more positive reactions from Japanese formerly wary of praising the military.
Japan’s once low-profile Self-Defense Forces (SDF), or military, has been at the forefront of the rescue operation after record rainfalls caused flooding that has left some 25 dead and seven more missing. These latest rescue efforts, combined with the SDF's response to last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami, are shining a more positive light on Japan’s military than it has seen in decades.
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