A collapsed road in Kishwada, Japan, on Monday following torrential rain caused by typhoon Lan(Photo: Kyodo/via Reuters)TOKYO: A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea after largely sparing the capital, Tokyo. Rivers burst their banks in several parts of Japan and fishing boats were tossed up on land. A container ship was stranded after being swept onto a harbour wall but all 19 crew members escaped injury. The house is fine, but the area is flooded, and they can't get out," one man told NHK. The centre of the storm was out in the Pacific northeast of Tokyo on Monday afternoon and it was moving northeast at 75kph , the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Source: Bangkok Post October 23, 2017 05:15 UTC