Typhoon Shanshan strikes Japan, bringing heavy rainfall on Friday, leading to warnings of flooding and landslides even in areas distant from the storm’s center. The intense storm caused travel disruptions, forced major factories to shut down, and led to widespread evacuations.

In Kyushu’s southwestern region, where officials warned that Shanshan could be among the most powerful storms to hit the area, residents in Fukuoka city were taking shelter indoors. The normally busy streets were deserted, with shops closed and public transportation suspended.

As of Friday evening, Typhoon Shanshan has resulted in six deaths, one person missing, and at least 121 injuries, according to NHK.

A man in his 60s went missing in Kagoshima Bay on Wednesday night after falling from a small boat into the ocean. A body was later discovered nearby, and authorities are investigating the incident, as reported by the news.

Approximately 125,000 households across seven prefectures in Kyushu lost power, according to Kyushu Electric Power Co. The typhoon’s slow movement resulted in heavy rains in areas distant from its center, prompting authorities to issue evacuation advisories to over 4 million people nationwide, including in Tokyo and Yokohama. Despite these advisories, only about 30,000 people had evacuated by Thursday, mostly in Kyushu, according to disaster management minister Yoshifumi Matsumura.

Shanshan, which made landfall in southern Kyushu on Thursday as a powerful typhoon, weakened to a tropical storm later that day.

By Friday night, the storm, referred to by the weather agency as Typhoon No. 10, was moving over Shikoku with a central pressure of 996 hectopascals, maximum sustained wind speeds of 65 kph, and gusts reaching up to 90 kph.

A Level 5 emergency warning, urging residents to take immediate life-saving action, was issued in parts of Oita Prefecture in the Kyushu region on Thursday due to the dangers of flooding and landslides.

The same warning level was issued early Friday morning in Ninomiya, Kanagawa Prefecture, due to flooding from the Kuzukawa River and in parts of Kawagoe, Saitama, due to the risk of river overflows. However, these warnings have since been lifted.

In Tokyo, torrential rain caused several rivers to rise to dangerous levels, prompting the weather agency to issue the second-highest warning for the Meguro, Nogawa, and Sengawa rivers, though these warnings were also lifted by Friday afternoon.

Evacuation orders have been issued for several cities in western Tokyo, including Hachioji, Tama, and Machida, due to the risk of landslides as Typhoon Shanshan strikes Japan.

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