Hundreds
of thousands of people in Japan have been warned to leave their homes as an
approaching typhoon is bringing heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash
flooding.
Authorities in the central city of Nagoya on
Tuesday advised 400,000 residents to evacuate because of worries that rivers
might burst their banks, Jiji Press news agency said.
The evacuation is not compulsory and it is not
known how many people have heeded the advice.
Typhoon Roke, packing winds of up to 144
kilometres (89 miles) an hour near its centre, was churning towards
southwestern Japan at midday Tuesday and on course to hit the main island of
Honshu on Wednesday, the weather agency said.
The storm has already dumped 400 millimetres
(16 inches) of rain over the past 24 hours on the southern province of
Miyazaki.
The agency warned of downpours over a wide
area of the country on Wednesday, saying as much as 50 millimetres of rain
could fall in an hour.
Footage broadcast by NHK showed roads in the
western city of Kobe under water.
The broadcaster said a further 23,000 people
in western Japan have been advised to seek shelter away from possible flood and
landslide areas.
Japan was hit by Typhoon Talas earlier this
month, leaving around 100 people dead or missing, mostly in the west of the
country.
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