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Typhoon Dujuan Strikes Eastern Japan, Causing Deaths, Missing People and Record Rainfall

Emergency teams are conducting searches and assessing widespread damage after the storm produced extreme rainfall and forced mass evacuations.

Overview

  • Dujuan moved over eastern Japan on Monday, triggering municipal evacuation orders that covered about 1.9 million people across six prefectures including Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa.
  • Official tallies remain provisional and vary by source, with reports from disaster agencies and news outlets citing between four and seven deaths, multiple people missing and dozens injured as search-and-rescue operations continue.
  • The storm shut hundreds of flights at Haneda and Narita and prompted widespread rail suspensions, with major carriers and Tokyo-area operators canceling roughly 275–500 flights and pausing many train lines.
  • The Japan Meteorological Agency recorded locally extreme totals such as 832 millimeters of rain in 48 hours on Oshima and a 24-hour record of 282.5 millimeters in Tokyo’s Edogawa ward, which drove landslides, flooding and building damage.
  • Tens of thousands of homes lost power, emergency agencies issued high-level landslide warnings in vulnerable areas, and authorities warned that recovery and damage assessments will take days as crews restore services and check at-risk slopes.