Japan typhoon News
PM Modi said, "India stands in solidarity with Japan at this difficult hour. Personnel of the Indian Navy, in Japan on a scheduled visit, will be happy to assist immediately.''
Strong wind knocked down trees, blew off an outer wall from a building and left five people injured in Naha, a city in Okinawa.
The typhoon is expected to cross the Sea of Japan on Tuesday night and gradually weaken to an extratropical cyclone on Wednesday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan braced on Monday for the arrival of strong typhoon Jebi as the storm churned north towards the islands, the latest in a series of harsh weather events to strike Japan this summer, meteorologists said.
Typhoon Jongdari will draw closest to Japan`s largest main island of Honshu late on Saturday or early on Sunday. While the heaviest rains are likely to hit the region around Tokyo, the storm could also pass right over the western region.
A typhoon slammed into Japan today, grounding dozens of flights, injuring at least three people and prompting authorities to issue evacuation warnings on fears of landslides and floods.
Local authorities and firefighters were still searching for the missing.
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