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As Typhoon Approached, Few Evacuated Despite Landslide Warnings

Typhoon Dujuan, also known as Typhoon No. 25, brought heavy rains to the Kanto region and caused landslides in Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures. Despite the fact that an Alert Level 4 urgent landslide warning had been issued for areas where landslides occurred, 11 people were caught in the disaster while in homes in locations at risk of landslides. With few people having followed local governments’…

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