Typhoon Noru brings heavy rain to Japan, injures 51

TIL Desk/World/Tokyo/ Typhoon Noru dumped heavy rain on Japan today as it moved back out to sea, causing flooding and property damage while the number of injured reportedly rose to 51.

After making landfall in western Japan the previous day, the storm packing winds of up to 108 kilometres (67 miles) per hour ploughed across the main island of Honshu.

The typhoon was 40 kilometres off the coast of northern Niigata prefecture by today, slowly moving towards the northeast, Japan’s meteorological agency said. The storm earlier killed two people on outlying islands Saturday.

Aerial footage showed a flooded river in western Japan’s Shiga prefecture, while houses, rice paddies and roads were submerged. On Saturday, a man in his 60s on the southern island of Yakushima died after falling in strong gusts generated by Noru and hitting his head.