By HIDEMASA YOSHIZAWA/ Staff Writer
August 13, 2022 at 19:22 JST
Visitors to the Kaminarimon gate of Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district brave an approaching typhoon on the afternoon of Aug. 13. (Takuya Isayama)
The eighth typhoon of the season made landfall on the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture around 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 13, bringing pounding rain and high winds that disrupted rail and air services, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. [Read More]
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