Typhoon Linfa, the first typhoon to strike Japan in May since 1965, weakened into a temperate depression Saturday morning, after coming ashore at Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
JMA officials predicted that the depression will reach the Tohoku Region of northern Japan on Sunday, probably causing heavy rain and landslides.
The season's fourth typhoon was the third earliest typhoon to hit any of Japan's four main islands since the agency began keeping standardized typhoon records in 1951.
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