the typhoon Shan Shan one of Japan's strongest ever storms in decades is dumping torrential rains across the southern regions the powerful storm claimed at least about three lives and left scores of people injured now these are some of the latest images from Southern Japan from the city of makurazaki in the southern tip of Satsuma Peninsula and across Southern regions tyun shanan packed gas of up to 250 Kil kilm per hour as it smashed into Japan's main southern island of kushu making it the most powerful storm this year and one of the strongest landfalls since 1960 almost about 4 million people in southern Japan have been urged to evacuate as the typhoon made its landfall knocking out power and resulting in air traffic getting jammed up the dangerous storm has also lashed kushu island with hurricane force winds and torrential rain as well now Japan has issued a rare emergency warning for the slow moving storm the typhoon is expected to bring damaging floods and landslides to most of kushu the country's southernmost main island with record rainfall after hovering over kushu for the next few days the storm is expected to approach the Central and the Eastern regions including the capital city of Tokyo around the weekend the hundreds of flights are canceled and bullet train Services suspended in many areas of kushu hundreds of bus and Ferry services have also been halted in a video that is now gone viral and aircraft can be seen aborting its Landing as it makes its Final Approach at the fuka airport according to the Japanese authorities 250 50,000 households in seven prefect are experiencing massive power outage the typhoon has damaged buildings and power lines with Gusty winds and heavy rainfall the major factories have shutdown Toyota has suspended operations in all of its domestic plants while other automakers such as Nissan and Honda and semiconductor firms at Renaissance Tokyo electronics and Rome have also temporarily halted production of their factories now earlier in the day the typhoon with gas of up to 55 m/s made their landfall near Satsuma Sendai City in the country's Southwest island of kushu the typhoon shanan is the latest harsh weather system to have hit Japan after tyon ample that riger that triggered blackouts and evacuations earlier in the month for all the latest news download the Von app And subscribe to our YouTube Channel