A typhoon has lashed southern Japan, forcing evacuations and cutting off power to one-third of homes on the Okinawa islands.
Khanun, which is the third typhoon to hit east Asia in as many weeks, threatens to worsen the heaviest rains in Beijing in more than a century, having killed at least 34 people in China so far.
Khanun follows two other typhoons, Talim and Doksuri, a super storm, which also drenched the Philippines and Taiwan, killing more than 30 people, in the last few weeks.
It was expected to make landfall on China’s northeast coast on Wednesday but forecasts now say it is more likely to turn towards the Japanese mainland without hitting China.
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