More than 100,000 rescue workers are still combing through flooded and damaged areas of central Japan after it was struck by Typhoon Hagibis, the most powerful storm to hit the area in more than 60 years. Local authorities are blaming this weekend’s typhoon for more than 70 deaths so far, with a dozen residents still listed as missing. Hagibis brought high winds and heavy rainfall, which damaged structures, collapsed dikes, flooded rivers and low-lying areas, and triggered more than 100 landslides. Gathered here are some of the images of the damage and immediate recovery work taking place.
Scenes From the Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan
- Alan Taylor
- October 15, 2019
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A collapsed railway bridge is seen in the Chikuma River, swollen by Typhoon Hagibis, in Ueda, central Japan, on October 13, 2019. #
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The Himawari 8 weather satellite captured this image of Hagibis as it strengthened and approached Japan on October 8, 2019. #
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Surging waves hit the breakwater and a lighthouse as Typhoon Hagibis approaches a port in the town of Kiho, Mie prefecture, Japan, on October 12, 2019. #
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Destroyed houses, cars, and power poles, which according to local media were believed to be damaged by a tornado, are seen in Ichihara, east of Tokyo, on October 12, 2019, as Typhoon Hagibis approaches the Tokyo area. #
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Trains in a Shinkansen bullet-train rail yard in Nagano, Japan, sit in floodwater due to heavy rains caused by Hagibis on October 13, 2019. #
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An aerial view shows areas flooded by the Abukuma River following Typhoon Hagibis in Tamagawa town, Fukushima prefecture, on October 13, 2019. #
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A couple watch floodwater flow through a break in the riverbank of the Akiyama River in Sano, Tochigi, on October 13, 2019. #
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An aerial view shows a Japan Self-Defense Forces helicopter flying over residential areas flooded by the Chikuma River in Nagano on October 13, 2019. #
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Local residents are rescued from a flooded area by Self-Defense Forces soldiers in Kakuda, Miyagi prefecture, on October 13, 2019. #
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A car is seen trapped in floodwaters in Kakuda, Miyagi prefecture, on October 13, 2019. #
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Buildings lie in ruins after they were hit by a tornado shortly before the arrival of Typhoon Hagibis in Chiba, Japan, on October 13, 2019. #
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A rescue worker swims as he checks around a flooded residential area in Kawasaki on October 13, 2019. #
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Police search a flooded area in Nagano prefecture in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis on October 14, 2019. #
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A soldier from Japan's Self-Defense Forces searches an apple orchard for bodies after heavy flooding in Hoyasu, near Nagano, on October 15, 2019. #
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A resident looks at the nose of a helicopter in a flooded area of Kawagoe, Saitama prefecture, on October 13, 2019. #
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A resident cleans up a flood-damaged house in Nagano on October 15, 2019. #
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Yoshiki Yoshimura, 17, sifts through the mud for anything salvageable at his home destroyed by the typhoon in Nagano on October 15, 2019. #
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A pig walks on a road in a flooded area of Marumori, Miyagi prefecture, on October 14, 2019. #
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People clear out a shop that was flooded in Hoyasu on October 15, 2019. #
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A man rests in an evacuation center in Nagano prefecture in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis on October 14, 2019. #
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Mobile phones are charged in the evacuation center for those affected by flooding in Nagano on October 13, 2019. #
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People look out toward flooded fields in Kakuda, Miyagi prefecture, on October 13, 2019. #
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A woman, who declined to give her name, surveys her home destroyed by Typhoon Hagibis in Nagano on October 15, 2019. #
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Rescue workers search an area that was flooded in Marumori, Miyagi, on October 14, 2019. #
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An aerial view shows the characters for "water and food" written on muddy ground in a flooded area of Marumori, Miyagi prefecture, on October 15, 2019. #
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A mannequin lies on top of furniture and belongings near flooded homes in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture, on October 15, 2019. #
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Firefighters pump water from a flooded area in Nagano on October 15, 2019. #
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Michiko Yoshimura (left) bows to her neighbor as they comfort each other while cleaning up her storm-damaged home in Nagano on October 15, 2019. #
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