Tokyo, Sept. 22 (Jiji Press)–A total of four people have been confirmed dead in the eastern Japan prefectures of Kanagawa and Chiba by 11 a.m. Tuesday, due partly to landslides caused by heavy rain from Typhoon Dujuan, the 25th typhoon of the year, according to authorities. Six other people are missing in the prefectures, both adjacent to Tokyo. The Kanagawa and Chiba prefectural governments asked for the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces units, and are searching for the missing people in cooperation with police officers and firefighters. In the Kanagawa city of Yokosuka, a landslide crushed a house shortly before 2 p.m. Monday. A resident in her 60s was found from the collapsed house by firefighters around 9:30 p.m. the same day, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Mud flowed into housing in Yokosuka and the neighboring Kanagawa city of Miura, and a couple in their 70s in Yokosuka and two women in Miura, one in her 20s and the other in her 30s, went missing. According to the Chiba prefectural government, a 51-year-old man who was operating a heavy machine to remove collapsed earth and sand in the city of Sodegaura fell unconscious after falling from a cliff with the vehicle and died later. Housing collapses caused by landslides in the Chiba cities of Kamogawa and Sanmu killed two women, one in her 70s and the other in her 80s. In Kamogawa, two men went missing. At an observation point in Miura, rainfall reached 244 millimeters on Monday, the second-largest daily amount on record, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. In the Chiba city of Kisarazu, adjacent to Sodegaura, daily rainfall hit a record high of 291 millimeters the same day. The daily figures in Miura and Kisarazu both far exceeded the monthly amounts of rain for September in an average year. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
