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Japan: Typhoon: 2012/09/16 Country Information on DRR

Period 2012/09/16
Country or District Japan
Event Type Typhoon
Outline Powerful typhoon Sanba left at least one man dead, four injured and another missing on 16 September 2012 while cutting electricity to more than 110,000 households in Okinawa and Kyushu, Japan.
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others

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Yomiuri Online 2012/09/18
In Kyushu, Yamaguchi and Okinawa prefectures, evacuation order and advisory were issued to about 12,000 families. A total of 1,000 houses were flooded in Okinawa and Nagasaki prefectures.

Japan Times 2012/09/17
In the town of Yoron,Kagoshima, an evacuation advisory was issued to all 2,454 households.