Japan typhoon death toll rises to 10 as Dujuan triggers historic flooding

Typhoon Dujuan, the twenty-fifth storm of the season, has left ten people dead and four missing across eastern Japan's Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, as flooding and landslides continue to claim lives in places that had long felt ordinary and safe. The storm forced a reckoning with the fragility of infrastructure: embankments around Inbanuma lake, which had held for fifty-seven years, gave way for the first time since 1969, sending water into surrounding communities. In the larger human story, this is a reminder that the boundaries we draw between safety and catastrophe are always provisional