THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 10, 2021 at 17:00 JST
Towering waves hit a lighthouse in the Ohata district of Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of Aug. 10. (Takunori Yasuda)
Hokkaido and the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan were drenched in heavy downpours on Aug. 10 by the remnants of Typhoon No. 9, prompting an evacuation order for one town and a village being cut off by landslides. [Read More]
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