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Gov't warns ships about high waves after typhoon
TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of high waves in northern Japan on Thursday and urged ships off Hokkaido to be cautious even after Typhoon Roke grazed the northernmost prefecture and weakened into a storm.
The storm is expected to bring waves higher than 6 meters through late Thursday in a wide area stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido's northeastern coast to the Pacific Ocean off the island's east coast.
The agency also called for extreme vigilance over possible landslides and floods resulting from rivers overflowing across a wide area from the western Kinki region to the Tohoku region, including the prefectures ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Roke, which was downgraded to a low-pressure system around 3 p.m., was located over waters northeast of Hokkaido as of 3:40 p.m., after greatly disrupting transport networks in the Tokyo metropolitan area the previous day.
The death toll from the year's 15th typhoon reached 12 as of 6 p.m. Thursday, with six people remaining unaccounted for, a Kyodo News tally showed.
A man and a woman were buried by a landslide in Ninohe, Iwate Prefecture, early Thursday morning. Both were rescued, but the 65-year-old woman, Tami Sannai, died later, according to local police.
In Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, two municipal officials -- Masayuki Watanabe, 61, and Isamu Sugai, 56 -- went missing while working near a swollen waterway, but were eventually found and confirmed dead.
In Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Norikazu Matsui, 44, was found dead on the seashore after he was washed away by high waves cased by the typhoon the previous day.
Meanwhile, some 180 people from 100 households in Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, have been isolated by a mudslide that cut a main road to the town.
At the No. 1 reactor building of the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, rainwater accumulated in two basement floors and plumbing areas underneath the turbine housing unit due to torrential rain in the area, the plant's operator, Tohoku Electric Co., said Thursday.
No radioactive substance was detected in the water, it added.
Yamagata Shinkansen bullet train services were halted Thursday morning on their service sector between Fukushima station in Fukushima Prefecture and Shinjo station, Yamagata Prefecture, due to heavy rain.
Some 5,000 people stayed overnight in passenger cars of shinkansen bullet trains at Tokyo and Shizuoka stations as they could not return home Wednesday.
The storm is expected to bring waves higher than 6 meters through late Thursday in a wide area stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido's northeastern coast to the Pacific Ocean off the island's east coast.
The agency also called for extreme vigilance over possible landslides and floods resulting from rivers overflowing across a wide area from the western Kinki region to the Tohoku region, including the prefectures ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Roke, which was downgraded to a low-pressure system around 3 p.m., was located over waters northeast of Hokkaido as of 3:40 p.m., after greatly disrupting transport networks in the Tokyo metropolitan area the previous day.
The death toll from the year's 15th typhoon reached 12 as of 6 p.m. Thursday, with six people remaining unaccounted for, a Kyodo News tally showed.
A man and a woman were buried by a landslide in Ninohe, Iwate Prefecture, early Thursday morning. Both were rescued, but the 65-year-old woman, Tami Sannai, died later, according to local police.
In Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, two municipal officials -- Masayuki Watanabe, 61, and Isamu Sugai, 56 -- went missing while working near a swollen waterway, but were eventually found and confirmed dead.
In Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Norikazu Matsui, 44, was found dead on the seashore after he was washed away by high waves cased by the typhoon the previous day.
Meanwhile, some 180 people from 100 households in Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, have been isolated by a mudslide that cut a main road to the town.
At the No. 1 reactor building of the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, rainwater accumulated in two basement floors and plumbing areas underneath the turbine housing unit due to torrential rain in the area, the plant's operator, Tohoku Electric Co., said Thursday.
No radioactive substance was detected in the water, it added.
Yamagata Shinkansen bullet train services were halted Thursday morning on their service sector between Fukushima station in Fukushima Prefecture and Shinjo station, Yamagata Prefecture, due to heavy rain.
Some 5,000 people stayed overnight in passenger cars of shinkansen bullet trains at Tokyo and Shizuoka stations as they could not return home Wednesday.
