Typhoon Nangka made landfall in Japan late Thursday, but even though it has weakened to a tropical depression it is still lashing parts of the country with heavy rainfall as it meanders slowly over the Sea of Japan.
More than 2 feet of rain have been reported some locations, and as rain continues to lash some of the country's most populated regions, more flash flooding and landslides are expected.
The center of Typhoon Nangka made its first Japanese landfall at 11:07 p.m. Thursday night local time near Muroto city, which is on the Pacific coast of Shikoku, one of Japan's four main islands.
Nangka was the equivalent of a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale at landfall with maximum sustained winds estimated at 75 mph, according to both the Japan Meteorological Agency and the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center. (Japan is 13 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Daylight Time.)
About seven hours later, Nangka made a second landfall after crossing the Seto Inland Sea separating Shikoku from Japan's largest island, Honshu. The second landfall, as a tropical storm, occurred in Kurashiki city, Okayama prefecture.
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