At least 18 people have been injured on
At an impromptu press conference, a
"People in affected areas should not hesitate to evacuate their homes and find shelter, even though they may be worried about becoming infected with the new coronavirus," the official said.
As Typhoon Maysak moved north over the Sea of
In an online meeting with government officials earlier in the day,
The year's 10th typhoon is projected to have an atmospheric pressure of 915 hectopascals at its center and winds of up to 288 kilometers per hour on Sunday, warranting special alert, the weather agency official said.
The land ministry will arrange for the release of water from dams on Kyushu before heavy rain hits, a ministry official said.
More than 80,000 homes in Kyushu, mainly in
Shinkansen bullet train services were temporarily suspended between Hiroshima and Hakata stations from the first run of the day as a precaution, and some domestic flights were canceled.
Of those injured in northern Kyushu, a man in his 60s fell from the roof of his home as he tried to spread a sheet on it, and a woman in her 70s hit her head against a shutter after being blown over by wind in
A man in his 80s fell and broke a leg in Saga Prefecture, while a woman in her 30s and her 2-year-old daughter sustained cuts from flying broken window glass in
As Typhoon Maysak made landfall at
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