The death toll from Sunday's mudslides and flooding in Kyushu rose to 14 on Monday as rescue workers continued searching for missing people, police said.

The Japan Meteorological Agency, meanwhile, warned of heavy rains over a wide swath of Japan stretching from southern Kyushu to the northeastern Tohoku region.

The Kumamoto Prefectural Government said agriculture, forestry and fisheries-related damage is estimated to total about 726 million yen.