On Tuesday, Typhoon Dujuan made landfall along Japan's Pacific coast, turning the steep terrain of Kanagawa and Chiba prefectures into a source of deadly peril as torrential rains triggered landslides that killed two people and left four others missing. In Yokosuka, mud entered a woman's home and took her life — a moment that distills, with terrible intimacy, the vulnerability of human settlement against the force of an intensifying natural world. The storm arrives not as an anomaly but as part of a year defined by extreme weather across continents, pressing the question of whether catastrophe
Japan typhoon kills two, leaves four missing as landslides ravage Pacific coast
Two people killed by landslides, four missing, with a woman in her 60s in Yokosuka killed when mud entered her home.