Powerful Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall in southern Japan | DW News

People in Japan are hunkering down in the face of the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year.

Typhoon Shanshan has torn into Japan's southern Kyushu island and is expected to head north over the coming days. Over 55,000 people have been evacuated and hundreds of flights grounded. Authorities have issued the highest level alert for extreme winds and potential storm surges.

For more on this, we talk to Sonja Blaschke. She is a journalist based in Japan and joins us from Hiroshima.

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[jameschurchill]

This is why we moved to Okayama countryside, less chance of natural disasters. Stay safe everyone, we have family in Kyushu also.

[pragueexpat]

At least there is no Mongol fleet this time..

[Awesomefishingvideo-bbtf]

how many people injury there? Really strong typhoon in here, Kyushu in Japan. how many

[aproy]

Really strong typhoon in here, Kyushu in Japan. 😱

[johnalver]

I was wondering who was going to do the actual work, like lifting and clearing debris and rebuilding again, since everybody's so old

[jomon]

In Okinawa, , , , This is really small

[dadearinto]

Generaly that Seven outer planets that generate the natural disaster on earth, likes Tide wave, heatwave, Sonic boom/big explosion, mount eruption, earthquake, tornado, hurricane or ect.
The single effective way to lessen the danger earthquake and mount eruption is to connect Makkah with Antartic, Tuamoto with Artic, and poles itself through Atlantic with magnetics materials. This Last link also can lessen the danger tornados and hurricane and at the same time yield giant energi from the Earth truthfully is the nature dynamo of big electrics. Doing reduction the danger by using the atomic bomb explosion and or injection of water into the Earth is irrational and useless deed.

Italy earthquake caused by Planet Neptune is ALLIGNED with Sun and earth

[chizzymomentum]

Japan and natural disaster. Pray for them

[chriscarrol]

Give it a while name and we won't make Godzilla jokes? Call it Dorothy. It would actually work duh.