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Agence France-Presse

A powerful typhoon ripped through the Japanese archipelago on Monday, leaving two people dead and three others missing, officials and news reports said.
Typhoon Talim made landfall Sunday in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, packing winds of up to 162 kilometres per hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The storm, moving northeast along the country, reached the nation’s northern island of Hokkaido by Monday morning, dumping torrential rain and paralysing domestic transport on its way.
A 86-year-old woman was found dead late Sunday after her house was hit by a landslide in Kagawa, western Japan, while a 60-year-old driver was found dead in his car which sank under a swollen river in Kochi, also in western Japan, local police officers said.

Public broadcaster NHK said three people were missing in western Japan, and 38 people had been injured in storm-related accidents.
At least 116 domestic flights were cancelled on Monday because of strong winds, and some bullet train services were suspended in northern Japan due to the typhoon, NHK said.




Authorities have issued warnings of rainstorms, high seas, possible landslides and flooding across the nation, as the storm maintained its strength.
The typhoon had battered the southern Okinawan island chain before it hit Kyushu, causing the most rain seen over a 24-hour period in 50 years in the city of Miyako.
Big storms regularly strike Japan, with 22 people killed when Typhoon Lionrock pounded the country last September.
Last month, Typhoon Noru killed two people and injured 51.


Two dead, three missing as Typhoon Talim rips through Japan

Local residents are evacuated by boat from an inundated house due to a heavy rain triggered by Typhoon Talim, in Oita, southern Japan. Photo: Kyodo

epa06205663 A handout photo made available by NASA on 15 September 2017 shows an image acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite of Typhoon Talim in the East China Sea, at 10:15 am local time (02:15 Universal Time), 14 September 2017. At that time, Typhoon Talim had maximum sustained winds of 210kph, equivalent to a category 4 hurricane, as it moved north along the coast of China. Forecasters expected the storm to curve to the northeast and weaken a bit before making landfall on 16 September 2017, on the island of Kyushu, Japan. EPA-EFE/NASA Earth Observatory HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Typhoon Talim veers away from Taiwan, moves towards Japan

Bad weather associated with the storm will be felt in the north and northeast of Taiwan on Thursday. Photo: EPA

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The typhoon had battered the southern Okinawan island chain before it hit Kyushu, causing the most rain seen over a 24-hour period in 50 years in the city of Miyako


Two dead, three missing as Typhoon Talim rips through Japan

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The typhoon had battered the southern Okinawan island chain before it hit Kyushu, causing the most rain seen over a 24-hour period in 50 years in the city of Miyako

The typhoon had battered the southern Okinawan island chain before it hit Kyushu, causing the most rain seen over a 24-hour period in 50 years in the city of Miyako