Japan<\/a>, setting off landslides, halting trains and killing a man after he crashed his car into a pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPolice said the man who drove into a pond in central Japan’s Shizuoka prefecture was rushed to a hospital but died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another part of Shizuoka, rescue efforts were underway after a road collapsed from the heavy rainfall, police said. Japanese media reports said one man managed to crawl out of a truck that got stuck but another man was missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Separately, three people were injured in a mudslide in Shizuoka, according to a prefectural police spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rivers swelled in Shizuoka’s Hamamatsu city, where video shared on social media showed cars wading through watery streets. News footage showed an underground walkway at a train station flooded with muddy water. Because trains stopped temporarily, about 1,000 people were stranded at an arena in Shizuoka where a concert was held Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The storm is the latest to batter Japan after typhoons have caused several deaths and damage in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talas was headed toward Tokyo and hammering a wide area around the capital with heavy showers. Landslide warnings were issued along the storm\u2019s path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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