One person has been killed amid heavy rains battering a region in western Japan that was hit by an earthquake at the start of the year. Ten people are still missing, including four construction workers involved in repairing the earthquake damage, local media reported on Saturday. Japan’s national weather service has issued a flash flood warning. Many houses in the municipality of Wajima on the Noto peninsula were flooded, according to local media reports. More than 10 rivers in the region have burst their banks, it said. Rainfall of more than 120 millimetres per hour was reportedly recorded in…