Recovery teams discovered the bodies of nine people in a nursing home in far northern Japan in the area where Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rain, causing mudslides and flooding.

Broadcast reports said police found the bodies while investigating reports of flooding in the area in Iwate Prefecture on Japan's main island of Honshu.  Broadcast video of the nursing home on the Omoto-Gawa River in Iwaizumi Town was surrounded by and partially buried in mud the washed down the surrounding mountainsides.  Many of the residents of the home were there because of dementia.

The Sorachi-Gawa River also burst its banks, and many people are reportedly trapped in houses and shelters in Minami-Furano Town.  More than 170,000 people were evacuated, including 38,000 from Ofunato which was one of the worst-hit areas in the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.  Ofunato is where Typhoon Lionrock made landfall - it's the first time a typhoon has made landfall in the northern region since 1951, when the Japan Meteorological Agency started keeping records.  Flooding in the region is widespread, and not limited to the main island, Hokkaido to the north also has its share of damage.