(Tokyo) Typhoon Talas approached the coast of Japan on Saturday, causing torrential rains and landslides that left one dead and several injured, a week after four people died in another cyclone.
Posted yesterday at 10:36 p.m.
A man in his 40s died in Kakegawa, central Shizuoka Prefecture, when his house was swept away by a landslide, state television NHK and local media reported on Saturday.
In Hamamatsu, also in Shizuoka prefecture, another landslide caused three minor injuries, according to NHK.
The police were not immediately able to confirm this information.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the typhoon was at 6 a.m. Saturday (9 p.m. GMT Friday) in the Pacific Ocean, about 100 kilometers south of Shizuka Prefecture. It was heading northeast, accompanied by gusts up to 90 km / h.
The agency warned that strong waves, torrential rains, rockslides and floods could affect central, eastern and northern Japan, including Tokyo.
Japan is hit by about twenty typhoons each year, between summer and autumn. Last week, four people were killed and 151 injured during the typhoon Nanmadol in the southwest of the archipelago.
According to scientists, climate change is increasing the severity of these extreme weather events.