Powerful typhoon causes 3 dead 47 injured in Japan

Three people died and 47 others were injured across Japan as a powerful typhoon moved through the country's southernmost main island of Kyushu on Thursday morning after lashing the islands of Okinawa, local press reported.

Neoguri, the season's eighth typhoon, made landfall in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Kyushu, shortly before 7 a.m. local time and brought heavy rains to western Japan.

Typhoon-linked fatalities have so far increased to three after a 77-year-old man was confirmed dead after being found collapsed in a waterway on Thursday in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, the report said, adding that the typhoon also left 47 people injured in Japan's several prefectures.

Heavy rains hit many areas in central and western Japan, with hourly rainfall reaching 71.0 millimeters in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture in the southern Shikoku region -- a record for July, according to the report.

Due to heavy rains, airlines canceled many flights linking Kyushu and Shikoku with other parts of Japan, while railways companies suspended part of their bullet train services.