Typhoon Shanshan wreaks havoc in southern Japan: Three dead, extensive damage feared | Mari Yamaguchi

TOKYO—A typhoon lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds Thursday, causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the length of the archipelago and raised concerns of flooding, landslides and extensive damage.

Farmland along a river is flooded by heavy rains caused by a typhoon in Yufu, Oita prefecture, western Japan on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

Footage on NHK public television showed the swollen river in a popular hot spring town of Yufu in Oita prefecture, just north of Miyazaki, with muddy water splashing against the bridge over it. Nearly a quarter million households were without power across Kyushu, most of them in the Kagoshima prefecture, the Kyushu Electric Power Co. said.

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