Once again, the sea reminds a densely populated coast that no infrastructure is fully sovereign against the forces of late summer. Typhoon Dujuan, the twenty-fifth of Japan's year, swept through the eastern seaboard on Monday with winds near 144 kilometres per hour, killing two people and placing 1.6 million residents near Tokyo under evacuation advisories before tracking northeast toward the Pacific. The storm's passage was brief but consequential — flooding streets, suspending bullet trains, grounding hundreds of flights, and cutting short the ordinary rhythms of life for millions — a season
Typhoon Dujuan kills two in Japan, strands thousands as storm moves offshore
Two people confirmed dead; 1.6 million people under evacuation advisories due to flooding and landslide risks.