A powerful typhoon caused flooding and landslides along the Pacific coast of Japan, killing at least two people before heading out to sea Monday, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reports.
Typhoon Lan made landfall in central Japan around 3 a.m. Monday and swept across Tokyo before heading out to sea several hours later off northeastern Japan.
Heavy rains inundated neighborhoods in Wakayama prefecture, south of Osaka. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that an 82-year-old man was found unconscious in the morning after a mudslide hit his house overnight in Wakayama's Kinokawa city.
The storm delayed vote counting in Wakayama and other parts of western Japan for national elections Sunday.
Domestic flights were canceled and some of Japan's high-speed "bullet" trains, as well as other trains, were suspended. Parts of expressways were closed as a precaution for possible flooding.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 17 people were injured by the storm, all of them slightly.