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September 21, 2011, Wednesday
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MORE than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate yesterday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides.
In Nagoya in central Japan's Aichi prefecture about 1.1 million people were urged to evacuate, while other cities in western Japan also issued evacuation advisories on a smaller scale, public broadcaster NHK said.
The eye of the typhoon was 210 kilometers east-southeast of the southern island of Tanegashima, moving east-northeast at 20km per hour as of 5pm, the Meteorological Agency said.
"In Aichi, the heavy rain is causing some rivers to overflow. I would like to ask people to exercise the greatest caution against potential disasters from torrential rain, strong winds and high waves," an agency official said.
The city of Nagoya asked the country's military, called the Self-Defense Forces, to send in troops for disaster prevention, a city official revealed.
Typhoon Roke follows on the heels of tropical storm Talas, which left about 100 people dead or missing in western Japan earlier this month.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said the typhoon had caused no damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where reactor cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 earthquakes and tsunami, triggering a radiation crisis. The plant, 240km north of Tokyo, was unaffected by Talas.
In Nagoya in central Japan's Aichi prefecture about 1.1 million people were urged to evacuate, while other cities in western Japan also issued evacuation advisories on a smaller scale, public broadcaster NHK said.
The eye of the typhoon was 210 kilometers east-southeast of the southern island of Tanegashima, moving east-northeast at 20km per hour as of 5pm, the Meteorological Agency said.
"In Aichi, the heavy rain is causing some rivers to overflow. I would like to ask people to exercise the greatest caution against potential disasters from torrential rain, strong winds and high waves," an agency official said.
The city of Nagoya asked the country's military, called the Self-Defense Forces, to send in troops for disaster prevention, a city official revealed.
Typhoon Roke follows on the heels of tropical storm Talas, which left about 100 people dead or missing in western Japan earlier this month.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said the typhoon had caused no damage to its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where reactor cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 earthquakes and tsunami, triggering a radiation crisis. The plant, 240km north of Tokyo, was unaffected by Talas.
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