Powerful Typhoon Haishen approaching Japan

By Yuri Kageyama
Updated September 5 2020 - 11:51am, first published 11:46am
Local residents of Toshima Village have begun evacuating as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan.
Local residents of Toshima Village have begun evacuating as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan.

A powerful typhoon, the second in a week, is barrelling toward the southern cluster of Japanese Okinawa islands, prompting warnings about torrential rainfall and fierce wind gusts.

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