Powerful Typhoon Shanshan slams into southern Japan

For southwestern Kyushu, the JMA predicted an huge 1, 100mm of rain in the 48 hours to Friday night.

Top tiles were blown off of homes, broken windows, and trees were depicted in a video released by the public broadcaster NHK TV.

” Our carport dome was blown away in its entirety. My kids claim they felt the shaking so strongly that they assumed there had been an earthquake, a Miyazaki resident told NHK despite the fact that I was n’t at home when it happened.

” I was surprised. It was absolutely beyond our imagination”, she said.

Toyota, the auto industry’s biggest producer, has suspended output from all 14 of its Japanese businesses.

ANA canceled 219 private planes and four international people on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, while Japan Airlines canceled 172 domestic airlines and six international flights scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

The delays affected around 25, 000 persons.

Starting on Wednesday evening, the Kyushu Railway announced it would suspend some of the Shinkansen gun train service between Kumamoto and Kagoshima Chuo and issue a warning about additional potential disruption.

According to other users, trains between Tokyo and Fukuoka, the most popular town on Kyushu, may also be canceled depending on the weather this year.

Shanshan comes in the wake of Typhoon Ampil, which caused disruption to thousands of planes and carriages this quarter.

Despite dumping a lot of rainfall, it merely caused minor injuries and damage.

Ampil arrived time after Tropical Storm Maria had poured record amounts of rain in the area.

According to a study released last month, storms in the area have been forming closer to shores, intensifying more quickly, and lasting long over land.