Typhoon Dujuan death toll rises as searches continue in eastern Japan
Three more deaths were confirmed in Chiba and Kanagawa by Wednesday afternoon, while embankment breaches near Lake Inbanuma flooded Narita and Sakae.
- The death toll from Typhoon Dujuan in eastern Japan has risen to 10.
- Four people remain missing in the Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, with authorities continuing their search efforts.
- The deaths and disappearances were primarily caused by landslides and flooding triggered by the typhoon's heavy rain.
Four people remained missing in eastern Japan as the death toll from Typhoon Dujuan reached 10 by 6.30pm on Wednesday (September 23, 2026).
Three more deaths in Chiba and Kanagawa had been confirmed by the afternoon.
Heavy rain from the year’s 25th typhoon had caused flooding and landslides.
The missing included a man in his 60s in Kamogawa and a Nagara resident in his 70s who may have been hit by a landslide while driving a vehicle.
The other two were women in Kanagawa: a Yokosuka resident in her 70s and a Miura resident in her 20s.
Both had been caught in landslides at their homes.
Members of the Self-Defense Forces, prefectural police and local fire authorities continued searching.
In Miura, soil and sand had flowed into an apartment building where a resident in her 30s was found on the first floor at about 10.30pm on Tuesday.
Her death was confirmed shortly afterwards.
Fire department staff and other workers continued looking for the two missing women in Yokosuka and Miura.
In Chiba’s Kamogawa, a man in his 70s was located after going missing in a landslide.
His death was later confirmed.
At about 3.30pm on Tuesday, a passerby called emergency services about a vehicle submerged on a flooded road in Inzai.
A resident in his 60s was found near the vehicle and later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Flooding in Narita and Sakae followed breaches at two points around Lake Inbanuma, a major lake in northern Chiba.
The prefectural government said no such breaches had occurred since it began managing the lake in 1969.
It was using pumps in an effort to lower the water level.
[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
