Powerful Typhoon Shanshan slams into southern Japan

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Powerful Typhoon Shanshan slams into southern Japan
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FUKUOKA, Japan — One of the strongest typhoons to hit Japan in decades dumped torrential rain across southern regions on Thursday, with authorities warning of life-threatening flooding and landslides. Typhoon Shanshan packed gusts of up to 252 kilometers per hour as it smashed into Japan 's main southern island of Kyushu early Thursday, making it the most powerful storm this year and one of the strongest at landfall since 1960.After making landfall gusts eased to 198 km/h.

The weather system was moving slowly, which often means more rain, with the weather office forecasting it would gradually rumble towards Japan's main island Honshu and the cities of Osaka and Nagoya, although this could change.The Japan Meteorological Office warned that "the risk of a disaster due to heavy rain can rapidly escalate in western Japan as Friday approaches".For Kagoshima, the JMA issued "special warnings of violent storms, high waves and high tides".

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