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A pet dog is being rescued by Japanese Self-Defence Force's 1st Infantry Regiment soldiers by boat at a residential area flooded by the Kinugawa river, caused by Typhoon Etau, in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, September 12, 2015.
The number of people who died in floods which devastated Japan this week reached five Sunday as rescuers continued their search for more than a dozen still missing.
Police said they found the body of a 68-year-old man in Tochigi, north of Tokyo, in the early morning, the fifth located in the rescue operation.
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