As Japan entered its Silver Week holiday, Typhoon Dujuan arrived not merely as a storm but as a reminder of nature's indifference to human calendars. With winds of 144 kilometers per hour and the country's highest emergency alert issued for the Izu Islands, more than one million people found themselves navigating the ancient tension between the life they had planned and the one the weather demanded. The storm's potential to shatter September rainfall records across central Japan speaks to a pattern increasingly familiar in a warming world — typhoons that do not simply arrive, but intensify bey
Typhoon Dujuan triggers record rainfall warnings, mass evacuations across Japan
Over one million people are under evacuation advisories due to life-threatening conditions and risks of flash floods and landslides.