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Typhoon No. 4 trails off to the east, leaves Japan with 3 dead, 1 missing, 70 injured
Typhoon No. 4 (international name: Man-Yi) went on to hit some parts of Western Japan after its Saturday landfall on Kyushu, then trailed off to the east over the Pacific. The typhoon forced several thousands to evacuate, and left Japan with three dead, one missing and 70 injured, news reports said.
Two of the deaths caused by the typhoon were reported in Kagoshima Prefecture. One person was reported missing in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, and another in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, but one of them was later reported to have been confirmed dead. 70 people had been reported injured by Sunday, most of them in Okinawa prefecture.
The typhoon was as of 4:00 p.m. Sunday 70 km south-southeast of Katsuura, Chiba Prefecture, moving east over the Pacific Ocean at a speed of 55 km/h. The typhoon weakened on Sunday and does no longer hold a storm area (defined as an area having winds moving at a speed of 25 m/s or more), but the rain clouds the typhoon brought with it are still making their presence felt in both Kanto and Kansai, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
In Miyazaki Prefecture, precipitation has topped 500 millimeters in some areas since it began raining three days ago, hitting record highs for July there, Kyodo News reported.
The Asahi Shimbun reported that a total 23,000 people had been affected by delays and cancelled flights due to the typhoon.
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