A Dangerous typhoon has brought serious rain and high winds as it approached southern Japan, leading to flight cancellations and power outages in several cities.
Typhoon Trami, rated Category 2, is the newest storm to threaten Japan in a year of grim weather-related woes, including grueling heat, heavy rains and landslides.
Outlying islands in the Okinawa chain, around 1,000 km southwest of Tokyo, were being crushed by serious rain and high tides on Saturday.
Powerful wind knocked down trees, blew off an outer wall from a building and left 5 people injured in Naha, a city in Okinawa.
About 195,000 households gone electricity on Okinawa and other neighboring small islands, according to Okinawa Electric Power.
Public newscaster NHK said more than 380 flights were cancelled, mainly those flying in and out of Okinawa.
Churning north across Okinawa on Saturday, Trami is then predicted to move across the islands of Kyushu and the main island of Honshu on Sunday, a path similar to that taken by typhoon Jebi early in September.
Jebi, the most dominant storm to hit Japan in 25 years, brought some of the top tides since a 1961 typhoon and flooded Kansai airport near Osaka, taking it out of service for days.
The season's 24th typhoon "might cause a catastrophe with storm surges, soaring waves, powerful winds and torrential rains," an agency official told a news conference on Friday in Naha, the island's capital, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper reported.
Rainfall of up to 400mm was predict for the Amami island region and up to 250mm for Okinawa by noon Sunday, while the storm could produce waves up to 13 meters high around the regions, forecasters said.
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