After being shut down for two weeks, Naha Airport, the main entrance to the well-known holiday destination and the capital of Okinawa, resumed operations on Thursday. The transport department reported that 304 flights had been canceled.
According to its website, local utility Okinawa Electric Power Co reported that as of 10.36 am local time( 0136 GMT ), 160, 040 households, or roughly a quarter of all covered homes, were experiencing power outages.
Additionally, as of 9 am, Kyushu Electric Power reported that the power source for 6,550 families in the Amami islands of the Kagoshima prefecture, north of Okinawa, was out.
KHANUN TRAVELS THE Planes IN TAIWAN
As the slow-moving Typhoon Khanun skirted past the region’s east on Thursday amid warnings of storms and strong winds, Northern Taiwan shut down businesses and schools while airlines canceled tens of flights.
Typhoon Khanun, which Taiwan’s weather service classifies as the second-strongest typhoonic level, moved slowly in the direction of its northeast coast with maximum winds of 198 kmh.