Typhoon Lashes Central Japan, Killing 2

A part of a street collapses into a river in the aftermath of a heavy storm, in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefercture, Japan, on Sept. 24, 2022, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Twitter @tetsuya47sbs via Reuters

TOKYO—A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, killing two and leaving tens of thousands of households without power, the Kyodo news agency reported.

Shizuoka city, southwest of the capital, Tokyo, was hit especially hard, seeing a record 417 millimeters (16.42 inches) of precipitation since the rain started on Thursday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.