Typhoon Talas hit Japan and has flooded and washed away houses in Western and Central Japan.
Japan is not getting a break. Besides Fukushima, Japan is now dealing with Typhoon Talas, which hit another area of Japan that had not been affected by Fukushima.
The typhoon hit the central and western part of Japan. Many are dead and missing with thousands stranded with the bridges washed away.
U.S. MSM and the morning shows have completely ignored this and have not mentioned it at all, even in passing.
CNN does have a small short article about it.
The CNN article says 29 are dead with 51 missing.
The China Daily article:
TOKYO - Typhoon Talas dumped record amounts of rain Sunday in western and central Japan, killing at least 20 people and stranding thousands more as it turned towns into lakes, washed away cars and triggered mudslides that obliterated houses. At least 50 people were missing, local media reported.
Evacuation orders and advisories were issued to 460,000 people in the region, which is hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the country's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast.
At least 3,600 people were stranded by flooded rivers, landslides and collapsed bridges that were hampering rescue efforts, Kyodo News agency reported.
Public broadcaster NHK showed a bridge swept away after intense rain caused a river to swell with brown torrents. People holding umbrellas waded through knee-deep water in city streets and residential areas.
The typhoon dumped record amounts of rain in some areas, and more was expected. It was the country's worst storm since one in 2004 that left 98 people either dead or missing, the Yomiuri newspaper said. By Sunday, Talas had been downgraded to a tropical storm.
Ten people were killed and 32 were missing in Wakayama prefecture alone, police said. One landslide there buried three homes; a woman was killed and four people were missing, but a 14-year-old girl was rescued from the debris.
In nearby Nara prefecture, seven people were reported missing after their homes were swept down a river, NHK said. A 73-year-old man died in Nara when his house collapsed in a landslide, police said.
The storm damaged Nijojo castle in the ancient city of Kyoto, tearing a large piece of plaster from the gate wall. The castle, a popular tourist destination, is designated an important cultural treasure.
The center of the season's 12th typhoon crossed the southern island of Shikoku and the central part of the main island of Honshu overnight Saturday. It was moving slowly north across the Sea of Japan off the country's west coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Because of the storm's slow speed, the agency warned that heavy rains and strong winds were likely to continue. With the ground already soaked, fears of additional mudslides were growing, and the agency issued landslide warnings in nearly all of the country's prefectures.
The Japanese citizens are now suffering and having their homes washed away in another area of Japan and there is silence from the U.S. media. It is disturbing how the U.S. media ignores important situations happening around the world and instead focus on one missing person or one certain trial etc, things that really don't matter in the whole scheme of things. But why should we actually expect real news from the propaganda media of distraction?
My thoughts and prayers are with the Japanese people.
