The National Police Agency said four people died, eleven people were missing and 77 people were injured by the typhoon, which veered out to the Pacific off the northernmost island of Hokkaido.

Etau left Japan at around 6:00 am (2100 GMT Saturday) and was downgraded to a temperate depression, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The typhoon brought heavy rain and strong wind across Japan, causing serious flooding and landslides, police said.

On Saturday, a 45-year-old truck driver was blown off a highway bridge by strong winds into the sea and drowned in Osaka in western Japan. He was trying to adjust his cargo at the time.

A 63-year-old farmer drowned Friday after falling into a swollen river near his rice paddy in Okayama, also in western Japan.

A woman in Mie, a prefecture on the Pacific side of Japan's main Honshu island, died after strong winds blew her off a terrace into a garden at her home. The 77-year-old hit her head against a concrete block.

And the body of a 71-year-old man was found Friday in a swollen river in Kochi on Shikoku in southern Japan. He apparently slipped into the river from the steps to his boat.

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