{"id":33668,"date":"2026-06-02T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/33668\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:54:12","slug":"japans-okinawa-hit-hard-as-typhoon-jangmi-heads-toward-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/33668\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Okinawa hit hard as Typhoon Jangmi heads toward Kyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Japan's Okinawa hit hard as Typhoon Jangmi heads toward Kyushu\" title=\"Japan's Okinawa hit hard as Typhoon Jangmi heads toward Kyushu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780379359.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: @anizo_shiroma via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Jangmi moved north toward Japan\u2019s southwestern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday after battering Okinawa a day earlier, according to the country\u2019s weather agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/articles\/-\/77117?pn=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government said nine people suffered minor injuries in the southern island prefecture as the typhoon passed through the area.<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 flights, primarily to and from Kyushu, were canceled on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>As of noon, the season\u2019s sixth <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/super-typhoon-sinlaku-threatens-us-pacific-islands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">typhoon<\/a> was located about 110 kilometers west-southwest of Yakushima Island and was moving northeast at around 35 kilometers per hour, carrying winds of up to 126 kph, the weather agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said about 48,000 households in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures were experiencing power outages as of 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that strong winds and heavy rain could cause landslides, flooding in low-lying areas and rivers to overflow in the Amami region on Tuesday and across western Japan from Tuesday into Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: @anizo_shiroma via Storyful Typhoon Jangmi moved north toward Japan\u2019s southwestern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25741,8,9298,162,25742,24653],"class_list":["post-33668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-okinawa","tag-flooding","tag-japan","tag-kyushu","tag-okinawa","tag-power-outage","tag-typhoon-jangmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}