Japan's coast guard has been forced to suspend the search for a missing livestock ship that two Australians were on as a second typhoon bears down on the coast. 9News
The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week unleashed fierce winds and rain on southern islands on Sunday, blowing off rooftops and leaving homes without power as it edged northward into an area vulnerable to flooding and mudslides.This Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020, satellite image released by NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System shows Typhoon Haishen barreling toward the main southwestern island of Kyushu on Sunday.
Several rivers on the main southwestern island of Kyushu were at risk of overflowing, officials said. News footage showed people in Kyushu starting to gather at gymnasiums, before winds gather momentum in the evening.The Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon Haishen, which means "sea god" in Chinese, was packing sustained winds of up to 162 kilometers per hour after battering Okinawa and the southern Kyushu island of Amami Oshima early Sunday.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries in Okinawa, home to more than half of the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan under a bilateral treaty.
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