Photo/Illutration Residents of Koshigaya in Saitama Prefecture walk barefoot to Sengendai Station on June 3 after a record 260.5 millimeters of rain fell over a 24-hour period. (Satoru Ito)

At least one person was killed and 30 others injured as powerful Typhoon No. 2 brought record-breaking rainfall to eastern Japan through June 3.

A man in Aichi Prefecture who became trapped in his submerged car was eventually pulled out, but by then it was too late.

A search was also under way for two residents missing in Wakayama Prefecture.

Thirty people from as far south as Okinawa Prefecture to Kanagawa Prefecture, just west of Tokyo, had suffered assorted injuries as of 10 a.m. on June 3, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

It said 178 homes in central Japan were also damaged by the typhoon.

The season’s second typhoon was about 310 kilometers southwest of Hachijojima island south of the main Honshu island and moving in a north-northeasterly direction at around 180 kph as of 9 a.m. on June 3, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It was expected to be downgraded to an extratropical low-pressure system by 9 p.m.

The agency noted that 179 millimeters of rain had fallen in Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, the most ever recorded in Japan over a 12-hour period, as of 9:20 a.m. on June 2.

Other municipalities with record rainfall so far this month were Koshigaya in Saitama Prefecture with 152 mm; Tokyo’s Nerima Ward with 145 mm; and Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture with 128 mm.

Izu in Shizuoka Prefecture and Toba in Mie Prefecture were among areas with a combined rainfall exceeding 500 mm from June 1 when steady rain first appeared.

Cautions against landslides were issued for multiple municipalities in the Kanto-Koshin and Tokai regions.

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