Dozens injured amid flooding from heavy rains caused by remnants of former typhoon Mawar, with new warnings issued near Tokyo
killed one person, left two missing and injured dozens more, authorities said, with thousands of people issued evacuation warnings.A rescue team in central Aichi region’s Toyohashi, where the highest-level evacuation alert was issued on Friday, “found a man approximately in his 60s in a submerged car, but he was later confirmed dead”, a city official said on Saturday.
In central and western Japan, many evacuation orders – which are non-compulsory, even at the highest level – were being downgraded as rains eased.With several cities including Toyohashi and Koshigaya near Tokyo reportedly seeing the highest 24-hour rainfall on record, the Japan Meteorological Agency urged residents to “be on high alert for landslides, overflowing rivers and flooding of low-lying areas”.
Shinkansen bullet trains were temporarily suspended between Tokyo and Nagoya, but Japan Railway said they resumed operations around noon.