By RYO YAMAGISHI/ Staff Writer
September 7, 2020 at 14:12 JST
Powerful Typhoon No. 10 moved north over the main island of Kyushu on the morning of Sept. 7, leaving dozens of people injured and hundreds of thousands of households without electricity.
Four men and women are missing in a landslide in Shiiba village in Miyazaki Prefecture.
The typhoon is expected to pass through the Korean Peninsula by the end of the day, but officials urged residents in western Japan and the Tokai region to remain alert for torrential rain.
In the Kyushu region and Yamaguchi Prefecture, a total of 43 people suffered minor and serious injuries as of noon on Sept. 7.
In the Shimofukura district of Shiiba village, a construction company’s office and a residential building on the premise collapsed and were washed away in the landslide.
According to local officials, the company’s president escaped, but his wife, a son and two male employees in their 20s remain missing.
“We were swept away between 8 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. on Sept. 6,” the president, who was injured, was quoted as saying by officials.
In Kagoshima Prefecture, eight people suffered minor and serious injuries. Nine were injured in Nagasaki Prefecture.
At Kohyagi Junior High School in Nagasaki, strong winds tore off the walls of the school’s gymnasium and shattered windows in the early hours of Sept. 7.
Two people who found shelter at the school at the time moved to a different evacuation center.
Windows were also smashed at a workfare center in the city of Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture. Four people who had evacuated there suffered minor injuries on their hands and legs.
In Koga, Fukuoka Prefecture, a man in his 70s on a motorcycle was blown away by strong winds. He was one of eight people injured in the prefecture.
In the capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture, a woman who was repairing a building was hit by a tire. The typhoon caused minor injuries to six people in the prefecture.
As of 8 a.m., 1.69 million people had been ordered to evacuate in all seven prefectures in Kyushu as well as Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Evacuation advisories were issued to 6.61 million people in these prefectures.
About 200,000 people actually evacuated, including 50,000 in Nagasaki Prefecture, 46,000 in Fukuoka Prefecture, and 42,000 in Kumamoto Prefecture.
As of 9 a.m. on Sept. 7, 392,030 households in all seven prefectures in Kyushu were left without electricity, according to Kyushu Electric Power Co.
Seventeen percent of households in Kagoshima Prefecture and 13 percent of households in Nagasaki Prefecture were without power at that time.
Chugoku Electric Power Co. said 66,560 households in the Chugoku region, mostly in Yamaguchi Prefecture, experienced power outages as of 8 a.m.
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Four people remain missing in a landslide in the village of Shiiba, Miyazaki Prefecture, triggered by Typhoon No. 10 on Sept. 7. (Tatsuo Kanai)
