Nine dead and 16 missing: Typhoon Hagibus hits Japan

The significantly weakened storm had moved back off land, but it left in its wake a trail of destruction and forced Rugby World Cup organisers to cancel another match.

Japan's military deployed helicopters to rescue people seen in aerial footage standing on balconies waving towels to attract attention. More than 7 million people were placed under non-compulsory evacuation orders, with tens of thousands heeding the call and moving into government shelters to ride out the storm, yesterday.

Well before making landfall, the outer bands of the storm claimed their first victim, a driver whose van was flipped over in the strong gusts.Another man in his 60s was also confirmed dead after he was pulled from his flooded home in Kawasaki city, near Tokyo. National broadcaster NHK said at least 99 people had been injured and 17 were missing after the storm, including several swept away in flood waters.

Organisers said they had been forced to cancel a third fixture, Namibia-Canada, but gave the go-ahead to two others and were weighing up the fourth match scheduled, the crunch Japan-Scotland game.

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