Heavy rain forecast for several days as deadly storm sweeps across Japan

Firefighters help clean up flood water from a house in Ogaki, central Japan, after Tropical Storm Shanshan (Natsumi Yasumoto/Kyodo News/AP)

Tropical Storm Shanshan has brought torrential rain to Japan’s Shizuoka area south-west of Tokyo, as weather officials warned it will linger for several more days.

Shanshan had maximum winds of 40mph when it made landfall on Thursday, leaving six dead and landslides, flooded rivers, torn branches and scattered debris in its path.