400,000 Residents Ordered to Evacuate as Typhoon Hits Japan

The year's 18th typhoon shot through central and northeast Honshu on Monday, causing torrential rain and strong winds to whip wide swaths of the main island.

Typhoon Man-yi made landfall shortly before 8 a.m. near Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, prompting the Meteorological Agency to warn of "unprecedented heavy rain" and issue "special warnings" to Fukui, Kyoto and Shiga prefectures, making use of a new warning system launched last month for the first time.

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