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Typhoon Hagibis the worst of The Storm had struck the country in Decades

More Than 110,000 people take part in the search and rescue operations after Typhoon Hagibis struck Japan on Saturday.

The Typhoon to beat the worst of The Storm , the missing, the country in Decades - at least 40 dead, with 16.

Typhoon Hagibis, the cancellation of the three Rugby World Cup games, but a key gives game between Japan and Scotland went ahead.

Japan won 28-21 reach the quarterfinals for the First Time .

Then,

"All the suffering with the Typhoon , in this game, everything For You . The Crowd was huge for us, and today was More Than just a game," he said.

Japan reached the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup

The Typhoon became weaker and moved from the country, but has left a trail of devastation.

thousands of police officers, fire brigade, coast guard and military to achieve those who are trapped by landslides and flooding.

The Typhoon struck eight prefectures in all of Japan , with wind speeds of up to 225 km/h (140mph).

In the Central Nagano Prefecture , a group of rescuers, wearing snorkel and goggles, the search for survivors in the waist-high Water began.

The Rescuers were out snorkeling

cleaned up A train depot in Nagano was also flooded, resulting in 10 high-speed ("bullet") trains, to be submerged. Each train has a value of $30m (£23m).

The office of the Prime Minister of Japan , said The Rescuers would have isolated the focus to "houses due to floods. and search for this missing".

An extraordinary flood-Control System

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC Tokyo correspondent of the

There are many remarkable things about what's happening in Japan . One is that Tokyo took a Direct Hit from the biggest storm in half a century, and survived pretty much unscathed.

This is a proof for the Tokyo extraordinary high-Water protection System - an elaborate Underground System of pipes large enough to be a passenger plane - the cost to build billions of dollars.

The second is the extent of the Destruction - expansion across Honshu, from the Prefecture of Mie in The West , to Iwate in the North - an area that corresponds to the whole of the United Kingdom .

the Floods are the worst in the Prefecture of Nagano, an area deep in The Mountains , more used to worrying about the snow.

Typhoon Hagibis was not only exceptionally large, they came very late in the season. Japan Typhoon season used to last from July to September.

But it is getting longer and longer, and the storms are getting bigger and bigger. A study, published in the year 2015 found that since the late 1970s, typhoons, the coasts of East Asia had more to 15%, and The Number of super-typhoons doubles had to beat.

Japan has probably The Best flood protection of any country in Asia, if not The World . Tokyo-flood System is designed so that you have a once-in-hundred-years event.

But the rest of Japan and other mega-cities such as Shanghai and Manila are not prepared nearly as well.

About 92,000 households remain without Power - down from 262,000 households on Sunday - with a 120,000 Water default experience.

More Than seven million people were asked to leave their homes, at the peak of The Storm , but it is thought to have 50,000 stayed in shelters.

The capital, Tokyo, was left relatively unscathed, but other cities and towns across the country were swamped by Water .

Satellite images of the Hinuma river, in the Prefecture of Ibaraki

More Than 1m (3ft) of rain in Hakone, the highest total registered ever in Japan , and 48 Hours fell in the city.

In Nagano, dikes along the Chikuma river, sending high Water into homes.

It was only last month that, damaging 30,000 homes, most of which repaired.

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Source of news: bbc.com