ServizioTyphoon Dujuan Brushes Tokyo: 9 Dead, 4 Missing After Record RainsScritto 23 settembre 2026 alle ore 07:36 UTCGuardaTrascrizione0:11Nine people are dead and four remain missing after record typhoon rains.0:16By the morning of September 23, hillsides around Tokyo Bay had collapsed onto homes,0:21about 500 buildings were damaged, more than 24,700 households still had no power,0:26and about 4,000 travelers were stranded at Narita during packed silver week holiday0:30travel.0:31With the storm now well offshore, can search teams reach the missing before soaked0:34slopes and rivers give way again?0:36Typhoon Dijuan, Japan's Typhoon No.0:3825 of 2026, brushed the Tokyo region on September 21 without a direct landfall on0:44the capital.0:44It tracked near the Izu Islands and the Boso Peninsula in Shiba, then moved0:48northeast over waters east of Choshi and out to sea toward the Aleutians while0:52weakening toward an extra-tropical cyclone.0:54Central pressure stood near 960 hectopascals, with maximum sustained winds near 400:59meters per second, or 144 kilometers per hour, and gusts to 55 meters per second, or1:05198 kilometers per hour.1:07Rain had already been soaking Pacific-facing areas since about September 19th.1:11Oshima in the Izu Islands, administratively part of Tokyo, took 600 millimeters in1:16the 24 hours ending at 2 p.m.1:18on September 21st and 8.32 to 837.5 millimeter in 48 hours,1:24more than double a typical September monthly total.1:27Tokyo's Itogawa ward recorded 282.5 millimeters in 24 hours, a local record1:33with about 325 millimeters in 48 hours in the Rinkai waterfront area.1:37In Chiba, Kimitsu logged 476.5 millimeters in 48 hours,1:43Ichihara 487 millimeters, and Otaki, about 488.5 millimeters.1:49Other sites in Kanagawa and Tokyo also set 24-hour records.1:53Forecasters had warned of up to 350 millimeters in Tokai, 300 millimeters in Kanto,1:59and the Izu Islands and 200 millimeters in Tohoku, with hourly rates over 802:03millimeters possible, and warned two-day totals could exceed a September monthly2:07amount.2:08Evacuation alerts at peak covered 1,902,645 people2:14across Ibaraki, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, and Saitama, the figure behind the2:191.9 million order.2:21Earlier counts over 1 million and 1.6 to 1.67 million reflect different times and2:26areas tallied.2:28The alerts were largely non-mandatory prepare to evacuate and evacuate now2:32information.2:33Highest level landslide warnings went out, including a level 5 landslide special2:37warning for Oshima and for parts of Chiba including Sotogara in Tokyo.2:41Meguro received targeted alerts for elderly residents in central Tokyo carried a2:45Level 3 alert amid flood and landslide risk, with local flood messaging reaching2:49level 4 in places.2:50Most orders were lifted on Tuesday as the storm pulled away.2:53Haneda and Narada were the main Tokyo area airports hit.2:57Japan Airlines canceled about 120 domestic and 15 international flights, and all3:01Nippon Airways canceled about 140 domestic flights for a combined Jal Aina, total3:06commonly reported as 275 flights affecting on the order of 40,000 to 43,0003:10passengers, rising toward 50,000 in some counts.3:13Broader counts, including Jetstar Japan, Peach, and other carriers, reached several3:18hundred cancellations and delays.3:20with some airport totals near five hundred.3:22Peak stranding at Narita reached about four thousand people when rail links3:26including the Narita line failed, with airports distributing water, snacks, and3:30sleeping bags.3:31Hachi Jijima services were widely cancelled.3:33On the ground JR East imposed partial and full day suspensions on lines in Chiba,3:38Ibaraki and western Tokyo, with some Tokaido Shinkansen effects.3:41Most deaths were landslide related, with homes crushed or inundated by mud in3:45Yokosuka, Mura, Sodogara, Sanmu, Kamagawa and similar sites.3:49Two landslide deaths in Chiba and Kanagawa were confirmed first with four missing at3:53that stage, rising to six dead by the evening of September twenty-two and to nine3:57dead with four missing on September twenty-third, six dead in Chiba and three in4:01Kanagawa with two missing in each.4:03One later confirmation was a man found in a submerged vehicle in Chiba.4:07Injuries were reported in the low twenties in mid-event tallies.4:10A separate landslide death was noted in Miyazaki on Kyushu from weekend rains apart4:15from the Kanto strike.4:16About five hundred buildings were destroyed, half destroyed, flooded above or below4:20floor level, or otherwise damaged across Chiba, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki, with hundreds4:26flooded and early fire agency snapshots.4:28Power failures peaked at 45,000 to more than 50,000 households without electricity,4:34worst in Chiba with tallies of 46,000 houses and more than 50,000 people without4:38power, still leaving more than 24,700 without power in Chiba and Kanagawa early4:43Wednesday.4:44Additional damage included landslides into homes and roads, an oil spill at the4:48Enios Yokohama refinery, cancellation of the Tokyo Game Show Final Day plus outdoor4:53events, and a Chiba baseball game and deployment of self-defense forces to assist4:56search and relief in Chiba and Kanagawa.4:59In the Meguro River area of Tokyo, water rose sharply on September 21st and5:04approached or threatened5:06flood danger level, with fast high flow and discussion of a retaining wall collapse5:10in Meguro Ward.5:11Official national casualty and housing tallies did not isolate a major Megaro River5:15overflow disaster or deaths there, with documented inundation concentrated instead5:19in Ichikawa and Sakura in Chiba, the Kamakura station area and other low-lying or5:24riverine spots, while Megaro faced risk messaging and elderly evacuation alerts.5:28Four people remain missing in Chiba and Kanagawa.5:31More than 24,700 households remain without power, and already saturated slopes and5:36rivers retain landslide and overflow risk, even with the storm well offshore,5:40leaving search, restoration, and ground stability as the immediate stakes.Leggi l’articoloCronologia della storiaHeyDexIl video breve ↗
