Typhoon Dujuan Hits Japan... Evacuation Orders Issued for 1.6 Million

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Typhoon Dujuan swept past Honshu, Japan, yesterday (September 21). At one point, evacuation orders were issued for 1.6 million people.

Reporting from Tokyo, this is correspondent Mun Junmo.

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Yokohama, a famous port city and tourist destination.

Strong winds and heavy rain lash sideways relentlessly.

Water spouting from crosswalks briefly subsides before manhole covers pop off and water gushes out even more fiercely.

[Ah, the cover just blew away.]

Kamakura, which serves as the setting for the film "Our Little Sister".

Police are using hand signals to guide vehicles on a roadway where floodwaters have risen to adult knee-height.

A tourist gives up on their completely soaked shoes and walks barefoot.

As major Typhoon Dujuan approached the Tokyo metropolitan area yesterday, torrential rain accompanied by strong winds battered Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture.

Some areas received heavy rainfall of up to 300 to 400 millimeters over the 24-hour period leading up to last night.

Evacuation orders were briefly issued for 1.6 million people, and a Level 5 emergency warning—the highest tier—for sediment disasters was issued for Oshima Island, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo metropolitan government.

At Tokyo Disneyland, strong winds rendered umbrellas useless and forced the suspension of operations for several amusement rides, while the Tokyo Game Show and a rock festival scheduled to run through yesterday in Chiba both closed early.

Chiba Prefecture, where 13 people died due to record-breaking heavy rain last August, was submerged once again.

A ramen restaurant that was flooded back then suffered damage once again.

[Nearby Resident: This ramen shop is in a location prone to flooding, but it has never been flooded identically like this so frequently.]

This flooded roadway is also the same spot where four vehicles were submerged during the heavy rain last August.

[Flooded Vehicle Driver: I was heading to work a little before 5:00 AM and this happened. I thought it would be fine, but I got stuck. This is the exact spot where four cars sank last month.]

Collapse accidents continued as well, including an incident in Yokosuka where mud and debris engulfed a home, burying and killing a woman in her 60s.

(Camera footage: Han Chul-min, Moon Hyun-jin | Video editing: Kim Jin-won | Design: Lee Jong-jung | Video source: @hokkori_buzz)
※ Please note: This article was translated by AI and may contain errors.