Kuma Village in southern Kumamoto was mentioned on NHK’s evening news. Earlier today, it got of 63 mm of rain (a couple of inches) in just an hour (or perhaps that was the rate of rainfall at it’s peak – not sure which). At any rate, it must have been raining pretty hard to be picked up on the national news:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170731/k10011081741000.html
– Kirk