My name is Hasan, I live in here and work 2 days a week at International Center as a volunteer.
Yesterday, Kyushu had very heavy rain
especially in Kumamoto, Oita and Aso city and heavy rain caused many problems as well as some damages and unfortunately some people died and some are still missing.
As a foreigner, this is not my first time to live in here but it was my first time to see this much rain in one day, actually in 6 hours. From my house I could hear river`s loud noise, the non-stop helicopter flying, the ambulance and fire truck sirens.
Where I am from is Vancouver-Canada does get rain (some times continously) but never like this in here last couple weeks and especially on yesterday.
I live close to ShiraKawa river (but not in danger area) and I went close to river yesterday and what I saw was normally I see on TV and this time it was real and river was angry and overflowed, you can not see the roads, rice fields or those little green houses.
I could actually see the peoples eyes how terrifying this hours and moments they were in but even though they were in this condition, they were still helping each other and not losing hope.
If you are foreigner like me and wish to come to downtown for any reason but dont know how is the condition of the city, I encourage you to call Kumamoto International Center at 096-359-2121 and get the very usefull and important information. We have people who speaks various languages such as English, Chinese or Korean.
Anyway, we do believe all of you have been fine, withouy any problem even is this was the heaviest rain that Kumamoto has experienced so far.
I wish to say my condolences those who lost their relatives and those who still missing can be found safe and sound soon. 
Thank you very much and hope to see the sun next couple days
