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Typhoon weakens after hitting Japan
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![Usagi caused landslides and transport disruptions, including flight cancellations [AFP]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Sci-Tech2/4/Typhoon-B.jpg "Usagi caused landslides and transport disruptions, including flight cancellations [AFP]") | | Usagi caused landslides and transport disruptions, including flight cancellations [AFP] |
Typhoon Usagi has weakened and headed out over the Sea of Japan after pounding Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, injuring 18 people.
Thousands of people were evacuated on Thursday and train service was halted between Honshu and Kyushu amid high winds, heavy rains and landslides.
Usagi, the second typhoon to hit Japan in less than a month, was downgraded to a tropical storm by international standards, but forecasters warned that it could still bring heavy rain to Niigata prefecture in northwestern Japan, which was struck by a deadly earthquake last month.
Police and municipal officials said 18 people were injured.
Among the injured was a 49-year-old woman whose index finger was chopped off as a gust slammed a door shut in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki. The storm was roughly 10km northwest of the city of Izumi, some 600km west of Tokyo, as of 9am (00:00 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Friday.
It had winds gusting up to 126kph and was heading north at 30kph.
"The storm is expected to curve east and may bring heavy rain to Niigata on Saturday, so people have to be alert for the chances of landslides and other damage," an agency official said.
Last month, Typhoon Man-yi struck Kyushu and killed three people, injured more than 70 and flattened several houses.
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