The passing of a powerful typhoon that swept Tokyo in the night from Sunday to Monday left two dead, dozens wounded, and caused power cuts and serious disruption in transport, according to the authorities.
A 50-year-old has been killed after hitting a wall, blown away by the power of the wind as he crosses a street, according to surveillance camera footage, the mega-city police said. An 87-year-old man also died Monday morning, found under a tree in Chiba Prefecture, according to a spokesman for the local police. Nearly 60 people were injured in the area, according to figures given in the early evening by the NHK public channel.
Object falls and power outages
Accompanied by wind gusts of over 200 km / h, Typhoon Faxai landed in the night along the Chiba region, southeast of the capital, after crossing the bay of Tokyo. The authorities still maintained Monday evening evacuation recommendations, not mandatory, for thousands of people. Districts in the capital have decided to close the schools on Monday because of wind-related hazards, which are expected to remain high even after the typhoon has passed, leading to falling objects.
Monday evening, some 760,000 customers were still powerless in the scope served by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), mainly in the prefecture of Chiba, bordering that of Tokyo. They were nearly a million earlier in the day. The railways have also been partially damaged.
Possible disturbances for Rugby World Cup
The arrival of Faxai on Tokyo coincides with the expected arrival of teams to participate in the Rugby World Cup, which begins on September 20 in Japan. The French team landed and could join its training camp near Mount Fuji just before the arrival of the typhoon, but the Australians, who arrived Monday morning, were not so lucky.
This fifteenth typhoon of the year in Asia had already moved out to sea on Monday in the middle of the morning and was moving in the Pacific Ocean to the northeast. Japan is familiar with cyclones, often stronger in late summer and early autumn, especially in the southwest. They are likely to disrupt in the coming weeks the oval ball games scattered in several stages of the country.