Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were called on Friday, June 2 to take shelter from tropical storm Mawar, responsible for torrential rains, especially in the center and west of the country, which led to the disappearance of two people. .
The eye of the storm, previously classified as a typhoon when it hit the US island of Guam in late May, was in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Japan on Friday.
Evacuation instructions – non-binding – were issued on Friday for more than 410,000 people in Toyota City, in the Aichi prefecture (center). In this same department, these recommendations accompanied by the maximum level of alert, were addressed to 130,000 inhabitants of Toyohashi, according to the public television channel NHK.
Two missing people
In the Wakayama prefecture (west), several streams came out of their beds. Two people are missing in Wakayama, one of them being swept away by a flooded road and the other by a river, according to NHK.
“We urge residents (in affected areas, editor’s note) to be extremely vigilant in the face of the risks of landslides, floods and flooding rivers”government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters. “Extremely heavy rainfall with thunderstorms is expected over a large part of Japan, from west to east, over the next three days”he recalled.
One person was seriously injured due to heavy rains and seven were lightly injured by mid-afternoon, according to the Jiji news agency.
Stationary trains and planes
High-speed train (shinkansen) traffic was suspended between Tokyo and Nagoya, the JR Central railway company said on its website. And more than 260 flights were canceled Friday in the country, according to a score of the NHK in the middle of the afternoon.
Global warming is intensifying the risk of heavy rains in Japan, as warm air masses carry more steam, scientists say.
In July 2021, heavy rains caused a huge mudslide in the seaside resort of Atami (southwest of Tokyo) which left 27 dead. Extensive flooding in Kyushu (southwest Japan) claimed more than 80 lives in 2020, and two years earlier the archipelago had suffered its worst flooding in decades, in which more than 200 people were killed. in the west of the country.
Source : Nouvelobs
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