{"id":10413,"date":"2011-09-21T05:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:09:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-21T05:09:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T05:09:21","slug":"4-dead-as-Typhoon-Roke-makes-landfall-in-Japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10413","title":{"rendered":"4 dead as Typhoon Roke makes landfall in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can&#8217;t believe this is happeneing again!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A powerful typhoon slammed into disaster-ravaged Japan today, authorities said, after it already killed at least four people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Typhoon Roke made landfall near Hamamatsu, central Japan, at around 2:00 pm (0500 GMT<\/strong>), on course to move northeast across the nation&#8217;s major island of Honshu, the meteorological agency said.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million people were initially warned to leave their homes over fears that the torrential rains Typhoon Roke is expected to bring will cause widespread flooding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rain and wind is raging out there as people on the street were staggering,&#8221; Yoshinori Ito, a spokesman with Hamamatsu City, said by phone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visibility is quite low due to the storm,&#8221; Ito said. &#8220;We urge all of our citizens to be vigilant for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The typhoon comes six months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami sparked a crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant, and less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four people have been found dead in central and western Japan, while two people were missing in the central prefecture of Gifu, including a young boy who disappeared on his way home from primary school.<\/p>\n<p>Many evacuation advisories were dropped by Wednesday lunchtime, but they remained in force for around 330,000 people nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was not clear how many had followed the advice, which falls short of mandatory evacuation orders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t believe this is happeneing again! 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