Typhoon Jangmi slams into Japan triggering top-level flood warnings and travel chaos - Thousands lose power, hundreds of flights are cancelled and rail services disrupted as torrential rain prompts ev

The Meteorological Agency has warned of violent winds, high waves, storm surges, landslides, flooding and overflowing rivers in affected areas.

A tropical storm is dumping heavy rain and raising flood risks around east-central Japan as it moved into the heavily populated Tokyo region.

Nonstructural disaster measures, including early warnings and evacuation systems, helped improve coastal resilience and reduce storm-surge impacts in Macau, report researchers at Science Tokyo. After analyzing the city's responses to three major typhoons,

Typhoon Jangmi is barreling towards Japan and is on track to bring its first impacts to the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, before it's expected to weaken as it approaches the mainland.

Typhoon Jangmi has crossed a critical threshold. With sustained winds now clocked at 70 knots (about 80 mph), the storm qualifies as a Category 1 typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and its forecast track points squarely at Okinawa.