Japan Flood Damage Totals 531 B. Yen in 2017

July 29, 2018

Tokyo- Damage caused by floods in Japan in 2017 amounted to 531 billion yen, the second-highest level in the past decade, according to provisional data released by the land ministry on Friday.

The highest figure in the past 10 years is some 729 billion yen posted in 2011, when a large-scale flood occurred in the Kii Peninsula in western Japan.

Last year's sum included some 190.3 billion yen in damage caused by torrential rain that hit Fukuoka and Oita prefectures in southwestern Japan in July and some 146 billion yen from Typhoon Lan that struck the western to northeastern regions in October.

By prefecture, the largest damage amount in 2017 was in Fukuoka, at some 153 billion yen, followed by Oita, at some 58 billion yen, and Akita in northeastern Japan, at some 41 billion yen, all record highs since statistics began in 1961. Jiji Press