More than 100,000 families have been urged to evacuate their homes in
Japan as a typhoon draws closer to the country’s southern mainland.
Japan’s prime minister
Shinzo Abe warned that Typhoon Haishen could make landfall in Kyushu, bringing “record rains, winds, waves and high tides”.
“I am asking that people exercise the utmost caution,” Abe said.
The typhoon’s centre was near Yakushima on Sunday, moving north at 22 miles per hour, meteorologists reported.
The typhoon is forecast to approach the Goto Islands west of Nagasaki around 3am on Monday and then move to the Korean peninsula.
Posts on
Social Media showed trees on Yakushima, an island 60 miles south of Kagoshima city, shaking violently in strong winds and driving rain. The typhoon is expected to have sustained winds of up to 134 miles per hour by Monday, Reuters reported.
The news agency said that more than 100,000 households had been ordered to evacuate in Okinawa and in Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki on Kyushu, Japan’s main southern island.
The typhoon has already cut power to almost 30,000 homes in Kagoshima and more than 3,000 in Okinawa, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Japan’s NHK reported that airlines had cancelled more than 500 flights departing from Okinawa and southern Japan.
Bullet train services in southern and western Japan have also been suspended, it said.
Typhoon Haishen comes just days after Typhoon Maysak, which smashed into the Korean peninsula on Thursday, leaving at least two dead and thousands temporarily without power.More News... Man Killed And Seven Injured In 'Multiple Stabbings' In Birmingham The Truth Behind Seven Myths About Asylum Seekers 10 Of The Wildest And Wackiest Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Trump This Week