Typhoon batters Japan with record rain, killing one

• Typhoon Nanmadol is one of the biggest typhoons to hit Japan in years.
• At least one person is killed and transport is disrupted.
• leaving about 340,000 households without electricity.

Typhoon Nanmadol brought strong winds and record rainfall to parts of Japan on Monday, as one of the country’s biggest storms in years killed at least one person, disrupted transport and put some manufacturers out of business. Forced to suspend.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delayed his departure for New York, where he is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly, until Tuesday to monitor the storm’s effects, media reported.

“We need to be on high alert for heavy rains, strong winds, high tides and typhoons,” a Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) official told a news conference.

Japan’s 14th Typhoon The weather forecast made landfall near the city of Kagoshima late Sunday before hitting the western island of Kyushu and thundering into the main island of Honshu.

A river overflowed its banks in Kyushu’s Miyazaki prefecture, flooding fields and roads, footage from state broadcaster NHK showed. Another video shows a riverside house dangling over a river, roofs blown off buildings and billboards falling.

NHK said one person died when his car plunged into a flooded river and firefighters were trying to determine if a man in his 40s was inside a shack that was buried by mudslides. was

At least 69 people were injured, NHK said.

Most of the approximately 340,000 households KyushuPower was still out early Monday, the trade ministry said, while Kyushu Railway Co. said it had suspended operations on Kyushu and Japan Airlines Co. Ltd., and ANA Holdings Ltd. Around 800 flights have been cancelled.

gave Storm As of 0200 GMT, it was centered over Yamaguchi Prefecture, on the western tip of Honshu, and moving northeast along the northern coast at about 15 kilometers per hour, the JMA said.

The agency forecast that the typhoon would track the coast north of Honshu until Tuesday before moving out over the Pacific Ocean.

It said up to 400 millimeters (15.75 inches) of rain was expected in central Japan’s Tokai region, the country’s industrial heartland, over the next 24 hours.

Toyota Motor Corp. was among the manufacturers that said they would halt production at some factories because of the storm, but there were no reports of major industry damage.

Torrential rain battered Tokyo, but business in the capital was largely normal.

Most schools were closed on Monday anyway due to the public holiday.