TOKYO: One person has died and two others are missing as a result of heavy rainfall in some areas of Japan, according to government on Saturday, June 3. Thousands of people have been left without power and have issued evacuation warnings.
The remnants of the original Typhoon Mawar, which has since degraded to a humid wind, are to blame for the flooding.
The highest-level evacuation alert for the nation was issued on Friday, and a rescue group in the Toyohashi region of central Aichi” found eagles about in their 60s in submerged cars but he was eventually confirmed dead ,” AFP reported.
Officials informed AFP that they had resumed the hunt for one man and one woman missing in the area in western Wakayama, where some river burst their banks.
As storms subsided in central and western Japan, some evacuation requests— which are not required, even at the highest degree — were downgraded on Saturday.
However, early in the morning, fresh warnings about flood risks were issued in areas nearby to Tokyo.
Power interruptions affected about 4, 000 homes in areas near Tokyo, according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Japan Railway reported that Shinkansen shot trains were also delayed between Tokyo and Nagoya, but public broadcaster NHK predicted that they would begin around lunchtime.
Leading government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno issued a warning on Friday that the region would experience” exceptionally heavy rainfall with thunderstorms” over the course of the following three days.
One man, he claimed, was severely hurt, and seven others suffered slight wounds.
Because a warmer atmosphere holds more water, researchers claim that climate change is increasing the risk of heavy weather in Japan and other places.
27 people were killed in a disastrous flood that was caused by heavy rain in the resort town of Atami in 2021.
Additionally, during the nation’s yearly gloomy season in 2018, more than 200 people were killed in northern Japan by floods and landslides.
Mawar, a storms at the time, passed earlier this week just north of Guam in the Pacific, uprooting trees and temporarily cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes.