{"id":66463,"date":"2024-08-29T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/japan-typhoon-shanshan-damage-deaths-kyushu"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:22:50","slug":"typhoon-shanshan-japan-prepares-for-major-disaster-as-storm-makes-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66463","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Shanshan: Japan prepares for \u2018major disaster\u2019 as storm makes landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorological agency says over a metre of rain could fall in 48 hours as tens of thousands are advised to evacuate from storm\u2019s path in southern island of Kyushu<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s strongest typhoon of the year has made landfall in the country\u2019s south-west, bringing torrential rain and winds of up to 252 km\/h (157 mph), strong enough to destroy homes.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorological agency said Typhoon Shanshan, referred to in Japan as Typhoon No 10, made landfall on the island of Kyushu at around 8am. The power company said 254,610 houses were already without electricity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/japan-typhoon-shanshan-damage-deaths-kyushu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteorological agency says over a metre of rain could fall in 48 hours as tens of thousands are advised to evacuate from storm\u2019s path in southern island of KyushuJapan\u2019s strongest typhoon of the year has made landfall in the country\u2019s south-west, bring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,455,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66463\/revisions\/66464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}