by BERNAMA

TOKYO – A powerful typhoon that crossed Japan’s Honshu main island from Sunday night to Monday morning, has left four people dead, reported Japan’s Jiji Press.

The 24th typhoon of the year, Trami, turned into an extratropical cyclone at a point off the southeastern coast of Hokkaido, northernmost Japan, around noon local time Monday.

After making landfall near the city of Tanabe in the western prefecture of Wakayama in Honshu around 8 pm Sunday, the typhoon swept through the main island also including the Kanto eastern region and the Tohoku northeastern region.

According to police and other sources, a landslide occurred in the town of Kotoura in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, around 7.30 pm Sunday, killing a 50-year-old man inside a mini vehicle. A man, believed to be in his 40s, was found drowned in the city of Fujiyoshida in the central prefecture of Yamanashi Monday.

One of the two remaining victims, a 46-year-old man, was confirmed dead in the western prefecture of Shiga and the other, a 79-year-old man, in neighbouring Kyoto Prefecture.

In Miyazaki Prefecture, part of the Kyushu southwestern main island, a woman, 67, is unaccounted for after falling into an irrigation channel.

According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, 14 people had been seriously injured and 90 slightly injured as of Monday morning.

Evacuation orders had been in place for some 183,400 people and evacuation recommendations for some 705,500.

Meanwhile the East Japan Railway Co. or JR East, and other railway operators suspended train services in the Tokyo metropolitan area from Sunday evening due to the approach of the typhoon.

The train operations were resumed gradually from Monday morning.

All Nippon Airways, a unit of ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines cancelled 125 and 94 flights on Monday, respectively, affecting a total of some 28,000 people.