Millions told to evacuate as typhoon pummels Japan
RPT of story published August 29, 20245:21 PM GMT+8
Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and semiconductor firms halt production
More than 200,000 households without power in seven prefectures
5.2 million people issued evacuation notices across Japan
By Satoshi Sugiyama, Kiyoshi Takenaka
TOKYO, Aug 29 (Reuters) -Millions of people were ordered to evacuate their homes as Typhoon Shanshan lashed southwest Japan with strong winds and torrential rain on Thursday, knocking out power, snarling air traffic and forcing major factories to close.
At least three people have been killed so far and scores injured in what authorities have warned could be one of the strongest ever storms to hit the region.
Toyota 7203.T suspended operations in all of its domestic plants due to the storm, while other automakers Nissan 7201.T and Honda 7267.T, and semiconductor firms Renesas 6723.T, Tokyo Electron 8035.T and Rohm 6963.T, also temporarily halted production at some factories.
Funeral parlour employee Tomoki Maeda was in a hearse when the typhoon struck in Miyazaki city in southern Kyushu, shattering windows and tearing down power lines and the walls of some buildings.
"I've never experienced such a strong wind or tornado in my 31 years of life," Maeda told Reuters.
Bringing gusts of around 50 metres per second (180 km per hour/112 mph), strong enough to blow over moving trucks, the typhoon was near Unzen city in Nagasaki Prefecture at 3:00 p.m. (0600 GMT) and moving northwards, according to the weather agency.
More than 200,000 households in seven prefectures were without power in the afternoon, according to Kyushu Electric Power Co. The utility earlier said there was no impact at its Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai city, where the storm made landfall earlier on Thursday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a press conference that three people had died and one was missing in incidents related to the typhoon, while the disaster management agency said 45 had suffered injuries.
After hovering over Kyushu for the next few days, the storm was expected to approach the central and eastern regions, including the capital Tokyo, around the weekend, the weather agency said.
More than 5.2 million people have been issued evacuation notices across the country, authorities said, mainly in Kyushu but also in some areas of central Japan, which have been hit by heavy rain that triggered a landslide on Wednesday.
Madoka Kubo, who runs a hotel in the historic, riverside city of Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto prefecture, told Reuters that all her reservations had been cancelled and she was now housing elderly people who had been evacuated from nearby areas.
Airlines, including ANA Holdings 9202.T and Japan Airlines 9201.T, have already announced cancellations of nearly 800 flights. Train services have been suspended in many areas of Kyushu, while hundreds of bus and ferry services have also been halted, according to the transport ministry.
Typhoon Shanshan is the latest harsh weather system to hit Japan, following Typhoon Ampil, which also led to blackouts and evacuations, earlier this month.
Reporting by Satoshi Sugiyama, Sam Nussey, Yuka Obayashi, Maki Shiraki, Rocky Swift, Kantaro Komiya, Mahezabin Syed and John Geddie; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman, Raju Gopalakrishnan and Alex Richardson
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