Typhoon Lashes Japan With Torrential Rains And Strong Winds On Slow Crawl North

TOKYO (AP) — A beardown large wind lashed southern Japan pinch torrential rainfall and beardown winds Thursday, causing astatine slightest 3 deaths arsenic it started a crawl up nan magnitude of nan archipelago and raised concerns of flooding, landslides and extended damage.

Tropical large wind Shanshan made landfall Thursday greeting arsenic a powerful typhoon connected nan confederate land of Kyushu and past gradually mislaid strength, though it was still forecast to bring beardown winds, precocious waves and important rainfall to astir of nan country, peculiarly connected Kyushu.

About 60 centimeters (nearly 2 feet) of rainfall fell successful parts of Miyazaki prefecture connected Kyushu, swelling rivers and threatening floods, nan Japan Meteorological Agency said. That 24-hour full was much than nan mean rainfall for each of August, it said.

By precocious day Thursday, nan large wind was moving northbound astatine 15 kph (9 mph) and its winds had weakened to 108 kph (67 mph). It is “no longer a powerful typhoon,” nan agency said.

Shanshan ripped done downtown Miyazaki city, knocking down trees, throwing cars to nan broadside successful parking tons and shattering windows of immoderate buildings. The prefectural disaster guidance task unit said 40 buildings were damaged.

Workers region a fallen character brought down by beardown winds from Typhoon Shanshan successful Usa, Oita prefecture connected Aug. 29, 2024.

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NHK nationalist tv showed a swollen stream successful nan celebrated basking outpouring municipality of Yufu successful Oita prefecture, conscionable northbound of Miyazaki, pinch muddy h2o splashing against a bridge.

At slightest 50 group were injured crossed Kyushu, astir half of them successful Miyazaki. Some were injured by being thrown to nan crushed by nan large wind connected their measurement to shelters, nan Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

Nearly a 4th of a cardinal households were without powerfulness crossed Kyushu, astir of them successful Kagoshima prefecture, Kyushu Electric Power Co. said.

About 20,000 group took shelter astatine municipal organization centers, schoolhouse gymnasiums and different accommodation crossed Kyushu, according to prefectural reports.

Ahead of nan storm’s arrival, dense rainfall triggered a landslide that buried a location successful nan cardinal metropolis of Gamagori, sidesplitting 3 residents and injuring 2 others, nan city’s disaster guidance section said. On nan confederate land of Amami, which Shanshan passed, 1 personification was injured by being knocked down by a upwind gust while riding a motorcycle, nan occurrence agency said.

Weather and authorities officials are concerned astir extended harm arsenic nan large wind slow sweeps up nan Japanese archipelago to nan northeast complete nan adjacent fewer days, threatening much floods and landslides. The storm’s effect was yet to beryllium felt successful nan Tokyo region, wherever business continued arsenic accustomed and dense rainfall was predicted later this week.

Disaster Management Minister Yoshifumi Matsumura said Shanshan could origin “unprecedented” levels of violent winds, precocious waves, large wind surges and dense rain. At a task unit gathering connected Wednesday, he urged people, particularly older adults, not to hesitate and return shelter whenever location is immoderate information concern.

Hundreds of home flights connecting southwestern cities and islands were canceled Thursday, and slug trains and immoderate section train services were suspended. Similar steps were taken successful parts of nan main land of Honshu that were experiencing dense rain. Postal and transportation services were suspended successful nan Kyushu region, and supermarkets and different stores planned to close.

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