Hundreds of thousands of households near Tokyo were still without power and water Wednesday amid intense heat, after powerful Typhoon Faxai ripped through the metropolitan area earlier in the week.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said power cuts continued to affect some 430,000 households in Chiba Prefecture as of Wednesday afternoon, and that its goal of fully restoring services before the end of the day was unlikely to be achieved.
Amid the high temperatures, many face water shortages in the wake of the typhoon as well as having no power for air conditioning. At least two elderly people in the prefecture have died — apparently due to heatstroke — and dozens of others have been taken to hospital with suspected heat exhaustion.