Heavy rain, winds lash Tokyo as powerful typhoon hits Japan

A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan’s worst in six deces me landfall and passed over capital, where streets, nearby beaches and train stations were long deserted.

Japan Meteorological ncy warns of dangerously heavy rainfall

Store shelves were bare after people stocked up on water and food ahe of Typhoon Hagibis. Japan Meteorological ncy warned of dangerously heavy rainfall in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, including Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa, and later expanded area to include Fukushima and Miyagi to rth. A coastal earthquake also rattled area.

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“Be rey for rainfall of kind that you have never experienced,” said meteorological ncy official Yasushi Kajihara, ding that areas usually safe from disasters may prove vulnerable.“Take all measures necessary to save your life,” he said.

Kajihara said people who live near rivers should take shelter on second floor or higher of any sturdy building if an officially designated evacuation centre wasn’t easily accessible. Hagibis, which means “speed” in Filipi, was vancing rth-rthwestward with maximum sustained winds of 144 kilometres (90 miles) per hour, according to meteorological ncy. It was travelling rthward at a speed of 40 kph (25 mph).

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Torno rips through Chiba

It reached Kawasaki, a western part of greater Tokyo, late Saturday and heed to Tsukuba city to rth about an hour later, before it was expected to swerve toward sea, ncy said. storm brought heavy rainfall in wide areas of Japan all day ahe of its landfall, including in Shizuoka and Mie prefectures, southwest of Tokyo, as well as Chiba to rth, which saw power outs and damd homes in a typhoon last month.

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Under gloomy skies, a torno ripped through Chiba on Saturday, overturning a car in city of Ichihara and killing a man inside vehicle, city official Tatsuya Sakamaki said. Five people were injured when torno ripped through a house. ir injuries were t life-threatening, Sakamaki said.

heavy rain caused rivers to swell, and several h flooded by late Saturday. wind flipped anchored boats and whipped up sea waters in a dangerous surge along coast and areas near rivers, flooding some residential neighbourhoods and leaving people to we in ankle-deep waters and cars floating. Some ros were so flooded y looked like muddy ditches.

An earthquake shook area drenched by rainfall shortly before typhoon me landfall in Shizuoka prefecture Saturday evening. but re were immediate reports of dam. U.S. Geological Survey said magnitude 5.3 quake was centred in ocean off coast of Chiba, near Tokyo, and was fairly deep, at 59.5 kilometres (37 miles). Deep quakes tend to cause less dam than shallow ones.

In Shizuoka, one of two men who went missing in Nishikawa River was rescued, Gotemba city official Fumihiko Katsumata said. Firefighters said two men were working at a river canal to try to control overflowing when y were swept away.

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