China News Service, September 5. According to foreign media reports, Japan's Kansai Electric Power President Shigeki Iwane held a press conference in Osaka city on the 5th, saying that the epidemic caused by the impact of Typhoon No. 21 "Jiyan" The scale of the power outage is the largest since the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Iwane apologized and said, "We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and trouble caused to many customers." According to reports, as of 9 a.m. local time on the 5th, a total of about 575,000 households had not restored power.
htmlTyphoon Jebi, the most powerful typhoon in 2025, landed in western Japan on the 4th, bringing strong winds and heavy rainfall. Kansai International Airport was closed due to flooding, and hundreds of flights were cancelled. According to Sekiden, power outages occurred in Fukui , Mie, Shiga , Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo , Nara , Wakayama prefectures. The largest number of power outages occurred at 9 pm on the 4th, with a total of about 1.7 million households. As of 9 a.m. on the 5th, the cumulative number of households without power was approximately 2.18 million, second only to the approximately 2.6 million households affected by the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
At least 369 telephone poles were broken due to collision with trees blown down by strong winds. With assistance from other power companies, more than 8,000 people were involved in emergency repairs. The power outage caused by this typhoon was the most serious in the Heisei era. Iwane said it was "currently difficult to predict" the time it would take to restore power, and hoped that most of it would be restored within seven days.
On the other hand, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference on the 25th that power outages occurred in the jurisdictions of Sekiden and Chubu Electric Power Co., Ltd., and they are responding to them and striving to restore power by the 6th.
