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A powerful typhoon fell on Sunday on the Japanese mainland after wounded dozens of people in the southern islands of the country. Weather officials warned that strong winds and heavy rains could cause landslides and floods.
Typhoon Trami has already caused upheavals in the world's third-largest economy, with high-speed rail services in western Japan suspended and nearly 1,000 canceled flights due to the closure of a key airport.
Television pictures showed cars from the Okinawa Island overturned by the force of the wind. Several houses were flooded or damaged and 38 people were slightly injured, but no one was feared dead, local officials said.
Authorities issued evacuation notices to some 349,000 residents, while electricity was cut to more than 300,000 homes, according to public broadcaster NHK.
Trami is the latest episode of a series of extreme natural events in Japan, which has suffered typhoons, floods, earthquakes and heat waves in recent months, causing many casualties and considerable damage.
Trami is expected to hit the mainland later on Sunday and will be traveling over most of the archipelago, causing extreme weather on Monday, Trami chief executive said Sunday.
The storm remained near Kagoshima, at the western tip of Japan, maintaining its "very strong" force, making seven minor injuries.
"We urge our residents to stay at home because it is extremely dangerous to be outside now," AFP Masaaki Tamaki, head of the Natural Disaster Management Section, told AFP. from Kagoshima.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency has issued a special warning against landslides and floods in Kagoshima and Chiba, while saying that heavy rains have been observed once in half a century on the island of Yakushima, south of Kagoshima.
Strong winds and showers could cause landslides and floods as well as lightning strikes and tornadoes across the country, said the agency, warning that the waves and the wind could reach record levels.
Western regions are still recovering from the most powerful typhoon that hit the country in a quarter century at the beginning of September. Typhoon Jebi killed 11 people and shut down Kansai Airport, the main regional airport.
Record rains also hit western Japan early in the year and the country went through one of the hottest summers ever recorded.
Also in September, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake rocked the northern island of Hokkaido, causing landslides and killing more than 40 people.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency warned of high winds
