Lionrock comes on the heels of two other typhoons that hit Japan in the past nine days, resulting in two deaths, the cancellation of hundreds of domestic flights and disruptions to train services.
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Police discovered the bodies in the town of Iwaizumi while checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at the Iwate prefecture disaster management division.
Japan braced Monday for a powerful typhoon – the third in little more than a week – and authorities warned of heavy rain, high waves and flooding after the previous storms killed two people.
Typhoon Lionrock paralised traffic, caused blackouts and prompted officials to urge residents to evacuate.
Flooding has been widespread in the area, with more people feared dead, after torrential rain brought by Typhoon Lionrock caused mudslides and rivers to break through their banks.
The Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has so far confirmed that a total of 17 rivers of eight river systems in Hokkaido, Iwate and Amori prefectures burst their embankments or otherwise flooded.
The nine were found without vital signs, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a briefing in Tokyo.
The storm came onshore near Ofunato in Iwate prefecture, a city where 340 people were killed and nearly 3000 homes destroyed in the 2011 disasters.
It’s off the Fukushima coast, packing winds up to 78 miles per hour and it’s expected to make landfall later today.
The authorities also plan the evacuation of over 5,000 people from the Aomori Prefecture and another almost 1,900 in Miyagi Prefecture, Kyodo news agency writes.
Japan’s Tohoku region – the area devastated by the 2011 quake and tsunami – braced for the arrival of the first typhoon to make landfall there since records began in 1951.
Twenty-four hours later, Typhoon Mindulle smashed into the southeast of Honshu, bringing torrential rain and risky winds to the east coast, including Tokyo and Yokohama.
This picture provided by Tokachi Mainichi Newspaper via Jiji Press on 31 August 2016 shows a house swept down a river at the town of Shimizu in Hokkaido prefecture, after Typhoon Lionrock struck overnight.
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