Typhoon Haishen battered Japan's southern mainland on Sunday with powerful winds and drenching rain, cutting power to tens of thousands of homes and prompting authorities to call for some 1.8 million people to evacuate.
Haishen was drawing closer to Japan's main southern island of Kyushu by Sunday night.
"This typhoon is headed toward and may potentially make landfall in Kyushu, bringing record rains, winds, waves and high tides," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a meeting with cabinet ministers earlier.
"I am asking that people exercise the utmost caution."
The typhoon was forecast to carry top sustained winds of up to 216 km/h by Monday, Japan's meteorological agency said.
Authorities urged evacuations for people in areas across seven prefectures in southern Japan, public broadcaster NHK said. The effort was complicated by physical distancing that meant evacuation centres could take fewer people than normal.
In a post on Twitter, trees on Yakushima, an island 100 kilometres south of Kagoshima city, could be seen shaking violently in strong winds and driving rain.
Elderly citizens wearing face masks due to the coronavirus outbreak were gathering at evacuation centres in Kagoshima and other parts of southern Japan, footage on NHK showed.
The typhoon has cut power to some 180,000 homes, NHK said adding that public transport services were all stopped in the affected prefectures.
Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said two injuries had been reported.
Heading for Korean peninsula
The typhoon was forecast to approach the Goto Islands west of Nagasaki around 3 a.m. local on Monday (2 p.m. ET on Sunday) and then move to the Korean peninsula, according to the meteorological agency.
One evacuation centre in Miyazaki reached capacity and stopped accepting evacuees as a precaution against the coronavirus, according to NHK.
Airlines have cancelled more than 500 flights departing from Okinawa and southern Japan, NHK said. Bullet train service in southern and western Japan was suspended, it said.
Japan's coast guard on Saturday suspended for a second day its search for crew missing from a ship that capsized in the East China Sea last week with a cargo of cattle.
Typhoon Haishen follows Typhoon Maysak, which smashed into the Korean peninsula on Thursday, leaving at least two dead and thousands temporarily without power.
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