Typhoon lashes central Japan killing two (updated)
24/09/2022 05:45
(Updates throughout)
TOKYO, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A typhoon lashed central
Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing
two and leaving tens of thousands of households without power,
the Kyodo news agency reported.
Shizuoka city, southwest of the capital Tokyo, was hit
especially hard, seeing a record 417 mm (16.42 inches) of
precipitation since the rain started on Thursday, the Japan
Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
Winds at the centre of the Typhoon Talas were blowing at
about 65 kph (40 mph), with peak gusts of about 90 kph (56 mph),
it said.
A man in his 40s was killed in a landslide and a
29-year-old man was found dead after his car plunged into a
reservoir, Kyodo reported.
Power was also cut to about 120,000 households, supplier
Chubu Electric Power Grid Co said, adding that a landslide had
knocked over two electricity pylons.
"We are expecting it may take some time to restore power
due to landslides, among other factors," the company said on its
Twitter account.
Central JR 9022.T restarted some of its bullet train
services, which had been suspended from Friday evening because
of the rain.
Although the JMA downgraded the typhoon to a
extratropical cyclone on Saturday morning, it forecast further
torrential rain in Shizuoka and urged caution for landslides and
flooding.
Yokohama city, some 30 km south of Tokyo, also issued an
evacuation advisory at about noon on Saturday to about 3,000
residents.
Typhoon Nanmadol, one of the biggest storms to hit Japan in
years, killed at least two people and brought ferocious winds
and record rainfall to the west of the country on Monday.
(Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by Robert Birsel and
Gerry Doyle)
((Sakura.Murakami@thomsonreuters.com;))