TOKYO: An approaching typhoon battered communities along Japan's Pacific coast on Monday (Aug 14) with heavy rain and crashing waves, prompting authorities to warn about landslides and flooding. On
battered communities along Japan's Pacific coast on Monday with heavy rain and crashing waves, prompting authorities to warn about landslides and flooding.
Some towns would see gusts up to 162kmh on Monday, picking up to 180kmh on Tuesday when the system slams into Honshu, the agency said. By late Monday morning, one municipality in the Wakayama region started calling on local elderly people to consider evacuating their homes for public shelters. Annually, millions of families return to their hometowns during this season, but some people decided to shorten their vacations and returned to cities Monday before the typhoon strikes.
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