Typhoon Dujuan left at least four people dead and 22 injured in Japan, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) said, cited by Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, September 22: three deaths in Chiba prefecture and one in Kanagawa, both near Tokyo.
Searches for six people missing after landslides continued on Tuesday morning. More than 45,000 households in Chiba were still without power and 460 houses were damaged. The death toll, put at two on the night of Monday, September 21, rose as rescue teams advanced. The storm moved away from the coast and out into the Pacific on Tuesday morning, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to lift or downgrade most heavy rain and landslide warnings. Oshima island recorded 832 millimetres of rain in 48 hours, more than double its average for the whole of September, public broadcaster NHK reported, and Tokyo’s Edogawa ward logged a local record of 282.5 millimetres in 24 hours. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delayed her departure for New York by about four hours and arrived late on Monday, Kyodo reported; she is due to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday.