Japan orders evacuations for 4 million as typhoon shanin hits with torrential rain and winds nearly 4 million residents in southern Japan have been advised to evacuate as typhoon shenen made landfall Thursday bringing hurricane force winds heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surges to kushu Island leaving thousands without power the Japan meteorological agency issued an emergency alert for the slow-moving Typhoon Warning of catastrophic flooding and landslides across kushu Japan's southernmost main island as record rainfall is anticipated travel disruptions are widespread with hundreds of flights cancelled bullet train Services suspended and major companies like Toyota shutting down operations a level for evacuation advisory affecting 3.7 million people is in place across kushu