Storm Jangmi batters Japan, cuts power to 60,000 homes; forces 3,70,000 to evacuate for safety

Storm Jangmi, which was downgraded from a typhoon after making landfall, left 15 people with minor injuries in southern Japan.

Tropical storm Jangmi batters Japan, cuts power to 60,000 homes

Severe tropical storm Jangmi ripped across Japan on Wednesday, with fierce winds and torrential rain disrupting transport and businesses, and knocking out power for tens of thousands of homes. The storm’s centre lay about 150 kilometres south of Tokyo as of early Wednesday afternoon, moving northeast with maximum sustained winds of up to 25 metres per second, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said. The storm is set to pass very close to the Pacific side of eastern Japan and heightened vigilance i...

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Tropical Storm Jangmi prompts emergency flood warning in Wakayama

A Level 5 emergency flood warning was issued for the Koza River in the prefecture after the storm made landfall early Wednesday.

Tropical storm Jangmi batters Japan, cuts power to 60,000 homes

Evacuation advisories were issued to hundreds of thousands of residents in eight prefectures across southwestern, central and eastern Japan.