hiro morita, nhk world. >> all right. let's talk weather now. people in tokyo are seeing clear skies, but it's quite a different story in northern japan. our meteorologist robert speta has the latest. >> yes. actually, if you remember tropical storm storm malo, that hit the southern japanese islands earlier this week. the storm faded out. but the moisture was still there. that pulled it off towards the north here. across parts of tohoku you saw heavy rainfall through the overnight hours here into friday morning and still scattered showers across parts of hokkaido. the same area has been hit by typhoons over the past several weeks, particularly last week. it really saturated the ground, casualties reported in that due to landslides and flash flooding. today just because of that rain on top of that we still have widespread landslide warnings down there especially towards iwate in southern hokkaido because of that precipitation. more rain is in the forecast, especially northern hokkaido. 100 to 150 millimeters. you have to watch out for it. cooler,