A lake in Kyushu’s Miyazaki prefecture overflowed, water damage fields and highways, footage from condition broadcaster NHK showed. Other video showed a riverside house hanging over a bittorrent, roofs ripped off structures and billboards toppled.
NHK said one man was killed when his car has been submerged by a flooded river and medical personnel were trying to see whether a man in his 40s was inside a shelter that was buried by a landslide.
A minimum of 69 people were injured, NHK said.
About 340, 500 households, most of them within Kyushu, were with out electricity early on Mon, the trade ministry said, while Kyushu Railway, said it had halted procedures on Kyushu and Japan Airlines and ANA Holdings terminated about 800 plane tickets, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The storm was centred on Yamaguchi prefecture, on the western suggestion of Honshu, as of 0200 GMT (10am, Singapore time) plus was heading northeast at about 15kmh across the north coast, the JMA said.
The storm might track the coast to the north of Honshu into Tuesday before moving out over the Pacific, the particular agency projected.
Up to 400mm associated with rain was anticipated in central Japan’s Tokai region, the nation’s industrial heartland, within the next 24 hours, this said.
Toyota Motor was among manufacturers that said they might idle production at some factories due to the surprise, but there were simply no reports of main damage to industry.
Intermittent bouts associated with heavy rain lashed Tokyo but companies in the capital had been largely operating because normal.
Many schools were shut on Monday in any case for a public vacation.