DTN News - JAPAN NEWS: Japan Warily Eyes Typhoon 日本は用心深く目台風
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - July 17, 2012: Debris lie around a house following a landslide after torrential rainfall in Aso City, Kumamoto prefecture on July 17, 2012. Flood victims in Japan began a full-scale clean-up operation after record rainfall forced hundreds of thousands to flee and left at least 32 dead or missing.
Flood-battered southwestern Japan on Tuesday braced for a typhoon amid fears it could heap further misery on an area where at least 32 people are dead or missing after record rainfall.
Typhoon Khanun was lashing the Amami island chain, south of Kyushu, where four days of torrential rain sparked landslides and flooding, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
Khanun -- "jack fruit" in Thai -- packing winds of up to 126 kilometres (78 miles) per hour, was moving northwest and expected to graze Kyushu island through Wednesday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Photo - Getty)
