Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person and left two missing, authorities said, with thousands issued evacuation warnings and left without power.
In central and western Japan, many evacuation orders — which are non-compulsory, even at the highest level — were downgraded Saturday as rains eased.Some 4,000 households in regions close to Tokyo were suffering power outages, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said.
Shinkansen bullet trains were still suspended between Tokyo and Nagoya, according to Japan Railway, but public broadcaster NHK said they would resume around noon. On Friday, top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno warned of “extremely heavy rainfall with thunderstorms” in a wide area over the next three days.Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan and elsewhere, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water.Strong rain in 2021 triggered a devastating landslide in the central resort town of Atami that killed 27 people.
And in 2018, floods and landslides killed more than 200 people in western Japan during the country’s annual rainy season. Earlier this week, Mawar — then a typhoon — passed just north of the Pacific island of Guam, uprooting trees and leaving tens of thousands of homes temporarily without power.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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