Extremely powerful Typhoon No. 14 moved toward the northeast around Shimane Prefecture on Monday after making landfall in the vicinity of Kagoshima City on Sunday night.
The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast that linear precipitation bands will occur in the Kansai region on Tuesday morning and in the Tokai region from late Monday through Tuesday morning, warning of strong winds, high tides and the risk of landslides and flooding rivers.
The typhoon is forecast to move northeastward over Honshu on Tuesday. It will weaken into an extratropical cyclone by Tuesday night off the east coast of Japan. However, wide swaths of the nation will likely feel the effects of the storm.
Rain from the typhoon is expected to be heavy and intense through Tuesday. The forecast calls for upwards of 400 millimeters of precipitation in the 24 hours to noon Tuesday in some locations in the Tokai region, 300 millimeters each in the Kansai and Kanto-Koshin regions, 250 millimeters in Shikoku, 150 millimeters in the Chugoku, Hokuriku and Tohoku regions as well as Hokkaido and 100 millimeters in northern Kyushu.
Kyushu Electric Power Co. said about 300,000 households in Kyushu were without power as of 8 a.m. on Monday.
A man has been confirmed dead after being found inside a submerged car in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Monday morning,
Local firefighters on patrol found the vehicle, only the roof of which was visible. According to the city fire department, the surrounding area had been flooded.
In Mimata, Miyazaki Prefecture, a man in his 40s has gone missing due possibly to having been caught in a landslide on Monday. The town's disaster management office received a report about his absence at around 7:20 a.m.
According to the town, a slope collapsed and sediment flowed into the building the man was in. The town has been unable to contact the man, and personnel from the Self-Defense Forces, prefectural police and fire department are searching for him.
In Miyazaki City early on Sunday the walls of the third and fourth floors on one side of a four-story building suddenly broke away.
"I heard a thumping sound and the building was shaking," recalled a 78-year-old woman who lives on the first floor of the building in the Nakamuranishi district.
The woman said she heard the sound at about 1 a.m. Sunday as strong winds continued to blow during that time.
Her 73-year-old husband who runs a barber shop could only sigh.
"I will think about what to do with my shop after things settle down," he said.
In the Kyoeicho district in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, several windows about 7-8 meters wide and 5 meters high in the facade of a pachinko parlor broke at about 9:10 a.m., exposing pachinko machines to outside air.
"I heard a howling sound and realized what was wrong," the parlor's manager said. "I felt I was in danger."
In the Koraicho district in Kagoshima City, a crane was found bent at a condominium construction site at about 2 p.m. Sunday. As there was a possibility that the bent part of the crane would fall, the city's fire department advised neighborhood residents to evacuate.
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