One person missing and more than 100 injured as 35,000 homes without power, authorities say
Workers carry barriers that were wiped away by flooding water at the Tama river in Tokyo on Friday as a result Typhoon Shanshan. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPAon Saturday, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood warnings hundreds of kilometres from the storm’s centre.
Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed homes with roofs partly sheered off while cars drove wheels-deep on flooded roads in the country's southwest. The storm made landfall in Kyushu on Thursday, bringing record levels of rainfall. One person was missing and more than 100 have been injured, said Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency. More than 35,000 homes were without power in southern Kyushu's Kagoshima prefecture, according to Kyushu Electric.
Shanshan, centred in the Pacific Ocean some 480km southwest of Tokyo at 12.50pm local time, triggered heavy rain as far away as the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, despite being downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday. Winds were gusting up to 90km/h.
The storm is forecast to weaken to a tropical depression over the weekend but is expected to continue to bring heavy rain, NHK reported.
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