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TOKYO (AP) — A tropical storm that dumped heavy rain as it cut across Japan moved into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday after killing two and injuring more than 100, paralyzing traffic and leaving thousands of homes without power.
New damage
was reported in southern Japan, where Typhoon Nanmadol hit over the weekend
before weakening as it moved north.
On
Tanegashima island, south of Kyushu island, a wall was damaged at a Japan
Aerospace and Exploration Agency’s space center, the Economy and Industry
Ministry said. The extent of damage to the building used for rocket assembly
was being assessed.
Two deaths
were reported in Miyazaki prefecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu
on Monday, when the storm was more powerful, the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency said. One was a man was found in a car sunk in a flooded farm in
Miyakonojo town, and another was found underneath a landslide in Mimata.
One person
was missing in the western prefecture of Hiroshima, and 115 others were injured
across western Japan, the agency said. Most of injuries were minor, with people
falling down in the rainstorm, hit by shards of broken windows or flying
objects.
More than
130,000 homes, most of them in the Kyushu region, were still without power
Tuesday morning, according to the Economy and Industry Ministry. Many
convenience stores were at one point closed and some distribution of supplies
has been delayed.
Most
transportation returned to normal on Tuesday when commuters returned to work
after a three-day weekend. Bullet trains and most ground transportation resumed
operation, but dozens of flights were grounded in northeastern Japan.
The tropical
storm has headed out to the Pacific Ocean off northern Japanese coast, the
Japan Meteorological Agency said Tuesday.