Mere days after a ferocious lightning storm rocked the city of Tokyo, citizens from various parts of central Japan have experienced a mysterious black rainfall.
Giving the effect of thin black paint spatters, the rain is reportedly not radioactive and the cause of the odd discolouration is currently under investigation.
Images of eerie soot-coloured puddles pooling on roads and on the top of cars have been shared on social media, with many people left mystified by the unusual liquid.The dark rainwater was reported to authorities by those living in several wards across Japan's Saitama Prefecture on March 2.
Most of these reports have originated from the city of Hasuda, according to local news source
SoraNews24, however other affected areas in Saitama have included Ageo, Iwatsuki and Kuki.
Hasuda City officials have since issued a statement announcing they are looking into the matter, after receiving various complaints of 'black puddles in roads and on cars'.
After measuring levels of radiation levels, nothing was found to be out of the ordinary.
