Overview
- The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded tsunami warnings for most Pacific coast regions to advisories by the morning of July 31.
- Advisories remain in the Izu Islands, Kagoshima’s Tanegashima and Yakushima, and coastal areas from Aomori to Chiba, where beaches and ports remain closed.
- Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa confirmed one death, ten injuries and more than ten heatstroke cases among evacuees.
- Tsunami waves reached 1.3 meters at Kuji in Iwate Prefecture, with peaks of 70 centimeters observed at ports in Hokkaido and Miyazaki overnight.
- Search teams, including the Japan Coast Guard, are scouring the waters between Shikine and Miyake islands for three crew members unaccounted for after their small vessel sank on July 31.