CHIBA, Japan — The body count from Typhoon Dujuan, the 25th named storm of the season, reached 14 on Monday, standardizing a week of destruction following heavy downpours across Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures near Tokyo.
Authorities confirmed two additional fatalities on Monday: a woman in her 20s from Miura, Kanagawa, and a man in his 60s from Ichihara, Chiba. Meanwhile, emergency personnel and law enforcement in Nagara, Chiba, are conducting search operations for a missing man in his 70s whose vehicle is suspected to have been struck by a landslide.
Areas east of the capital experienced extensive damage, with communities surrounding Lake Inbanuma facing prolonged flooding caused by a breached embankment.
Inspecting the emergency levee restoration works at the lake on Sunday, Chiba Governor Toshihito Kumagai emphasized the urgency of the situation as meteorologists track the potential approach of Typhoon Surigae, the year’s 26th storm.
”The question is how much we can get the (repair) work done before the typhoon arrives,” he said.
Prefectural reports as of Monday afternoon indicate that over 200 homes sustained structural damage, while roughly 1,600 properties were inundated. Infrastructure outages remain widespread, leaving approximately 3,900 households without electricity and nearly 450 without running water.
Around 160 residents remain in temporary shelters.
In response to local disruptions in Ichihara—where power loss impacted around 2,000 households—the Japan Self-Defense Forces were deployed on Monday to assist in clearing fallen trees.