People and businesses from central to western Japan began picking up the pieces from the passage of Typhoon Jongdari on Monday after the storm's rare east-west trajectory took it from Mie Prefecture straight across western Japan, dumping more rain on the areas ravaged by the deadly floods and landslides earlier this month.

Thanks to early evacuations and a drop in the cyclone's strength Sunday, damage was relatively light, with 24 people injured as of Sunday evening, a Kyodo News tally showed.

Among them were five people at a scenic restaurant on the Pacific coast that was inundated by seawater after its giant windows were shattered by a series of high waves.