Jebi is the first typhoon classed as "very strong" by the country's weather agency to make landfall on Japan's main islands since a typhoon left 48 people dead or missing in 1993, Kyodo reports.<doc-sep>At least 10 people have reportedly died after Japan was hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years. More than one million people have been urged to evacuate their homes as Typhoon Jebi brought winds of up to 135mph to parts of the country. Image: High waves hit breakwaters at a port of Aki, western Japan Tens of thousands of buildings have been left without power, with more than 700 flights cancelled along with scores of train and ferry services. Image: Containers turned over in Kobe Japan's weather agency warned of possible landslides, flooding, high tides, lightning and tornadoes across a swathe of the country. Japanese media said 10 people have died in the severe weather, while more than 200 people have reportedly been injured. Advertisement A man in his 70s was killed after apparently being blown to the ground from his apartment in Osaka prefecture. Image: The severe storm brought debris floating in Nishinomiya city Meanwhile, a 71-year-old man died after being buried underneath a storage unit that collapsed on him. Image: A ship damaged in Nishinomiya, western Japan Evacuation advisories were issued for 1.19 million people in western and central Japan, with another 16,000 people issued with stronger but non-mandatory evacuation orders. A tanker anchored in Osaka Bay was swept into a bridge and Kansai international airport has been closed after the runway was flooded by high waves whipped up by the storm. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Near miss as typhoon debris hits glass roof Although the runway has now been cleared, officials were not able to say when the airport would reopen. Universal Studios Japan in Osaka shut down along with factories for several large manufacturers, including car maker Toyota. Image: The typhoon is the strongest to hit Japan in 25 years Parts of a train station roof also collapsed in Kyoto following the stormy weather. Weather forecaster Ryuta Kurora described the typhoon as "very strong", adding: "This is (the strongest) since 1993." Image: High tides were whipped up by the storm in Nishinomiya city As the storm approached, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a disaster response meeting and cancelled a trip to Kyushu, the country's southernmost main island. Image: Vehicles left piled up in Kobe "I urge the Japanese people to take action to protect your lives, including preparing and evacuating early," he said. Image: Heavy rain and winds hit the city of Tokushima He also instructed his cabinet to "take all measures possible". Jebi has a similar trajectory to Typhoon Cimaron which made landfall on 23 August, disrupting transport but causing limited damage and few injuries. Image: Nagoya port officers close breakwater gates in preparation Some of the areas affected are still recovering from devastating record rains that killed at least 200 people over the summer. The flooding and landslides proved so deadly in part because many people did not heed evacuation warnings, which are not mandatory. Image: An aerial view shows a flooded runway at Kansai airport Since the disaster, authorities have urged people to take the warnings more seriously and prepare to leave home immediately when they are issued.<doc-sep>A man wipes the sweat from his face in the scorching heat at a business district in Tokyo, Monday, July 23, 2018. Searing hot temperatures are forecast for wide swaths of Japan and South Korea in a long-running heat wave. 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It threw burning logs across our guard for 45 minutes and pulled our hose 100 plus ft in the air before..." duration: 00:00:00 site: Instagram author: null published: Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) intervention: no description: null High waves hit breakwaters at a port of Aki, Kochi prefecture, western Japan, Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018. Powerful Typhoon Jebi is approaching Japan's Pacific coast and forecast to bring heavy rain and high winds to much of the country. (Ichiro Banno/Kyodo News via AP) (CNN) — The strongest typhoon to hit Japan’s mainland in 25 years smashed a tanker into a bridge, forcing one of the country’s largest airports to close and hundreds of flights to be canceled. At least 10 people have died since Typhoon Jebi slammed into western Japan Tuesday, bringing strong winds and lashing rain. Seven of those killed were in Osaka Prefecture and the others in Mie, Aichi and Shiga, where police said a man in Higashiomi City died after the warehouse he was working in collapsed. Ichiro Banno/Kyodo News via AP High waves hit breakwaters at a port in Aki, Kochi prefecture, in western Japan. Typhoon Jebi landed with “very strong” force in Tokushima prefecture Tuesday afternoon, the strongest typhoon to hit the country’s mainland since 1993, said Akihiro Kikuchi, from Japan’s Meteorological Agency. Winds lashed buildings and whipped up the sea, yanking an 89-meter-long tanker, the Houunmaru, from its anchorage and ramming it into the bridge connecting Kansai Airport with the mainland. Images showed the ship’s upper decks smashed against bridge, dislodging a portion of the road and forcing authorities to close it to traffic. Eleven crew members were on board, but no one was injured in the incident, Coast Guard spokesman Keita Sakai said. Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper via AP A tanker rests after slamming into the side of an Osaka bridge that connects the airport to the mainland, damaging part of the bridge and the vessel. The bridge reopened on Wednesday but not before around 3,000 passengers spent a night trapped in the airport. Some were evacuated on buses Wednesday morning to Izumisano Station in Osaka City. Hundreds of others planned to leave on high speed boats dispatched to Kansai Airport Wednesday to ferry passengers to Kobe Airport to catch alternative flights. Each boat was capable of carrying 110 passengers, and would go back and forth until all passengers were evacuated, Mami Yamaguchi from the New Kansai International Airport Company told CNN. Kyodo News via AP Building scaffolding lays collapsed after a powerful typhoon hit Osaka, in western Japan. All flights were canceled Wednesday, adding to the traffic chaos caused by hundreds of domestic and international flight cancellations on Tuesday. “Equipments and machines were damaged by the flooded water in a part of the terminal. We don’t know when we can re-open,” Yamaguchi said. Storm surges also swamped runways at Kansai Airport, with water washed in from Osaka Bay. Flight cancellations also affected Itami Airport in Osaka and Chubu Centrair International Airport in Nagoya. Aerial images of the damage showed rows of cars that had been consumed by flames at an auctioneer’s lot in Nishinomiya, Hyogo prefecture. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Local police said the fire might have been sparked by wires short circuiting. It’s not clear what caused the blaze, but police suspect wires could have short-circuited in the rain. Local police said a total of 187 cars caught fire. Firefighters weren’t able to reach the area due to flooded streets. They eventually put out the flames at 9:35 p.m. local time after spraying water from the sea. JIJI PRESS/AFP/AFP/Getty Images Strong winds in Kobe left cars piled in a heap. Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper via AP Kansai International Airport is partly inundated following a powerful typhoon in Izumisano, in Japan's Osaka prefecture. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Wednesday that more than 400 people had been injured across 20 prefectures. Koji Sasahara/AP Pedestrians try to hold their umbrellas while struggling with strong winds in Yokohama, near Tokyo. More than 8,000 residents had sought shelter in 1,667 evacuation shelters in 24 prefectures, it added. Social media users posted videos that showed the force of the storm. On Japan’s main island of Honshu, nine cities and towns issued compulsory evacuation orders. A further 53 issued non-compulsory evacuation orders. Towns and cities in the prefectures of Gifu, Aichi, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama on Honshu, along with Tokushima, Kagawa and Kochi on the island of Shikoku were affected. Before it made landfall, the storm had sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour (87 mph) and gusts of 165 kmh (102 mph), the equivalent of a Category 1 Atlantic hurricane. There is a significant threat of widespread flooding. Jebi has dumped more than 500 millimeters (nearly 20 inches) of rain in some areas and is likely to produce between 150 and 300 millimeters of rain in many locations. Jebi comes just weeks after Typhoon Cimaron moved over the same region.<doc-sep>
A powerful typhoon has slammed into western Japan, inundating the region's main international airport, blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. Local media reported that seven people died and more than 100 others were injured when Typhoon Jebi caused violent winds in the west of the country. The storm is the strongest to hit the country in 25 years. According to public broadcaster NHK, the casualties included a 71-year-old man who was killed in western Shiga prefecture after being trapped under a warehouse that collapsed in strong wind. NHK said 164 people had suffered mostly minor injuries. Several people were injured at Kyoto station when part of a glass ceiling collapsed, according to police. A number of vehicles were blown on to their sides on a motorway, while a truck narrowly escaped being swept off a bridge connecting the island of Shikoku and the main Japanese island of Honshu. Television networks showed dramatic footage of a 2,591-tonne tanker that collided with the side of a bridge linking the mainland with Kansai International airport, which stands on an artificial island in Osaka Bay. The tanker and bridge were damaged but the ship’s crew were unhurt. The airport’s runway and the basement floor of a terminal building were flooded, according to local authorities. The damage to the bridge left the airport cut off from the mainland and stranded around 3,000 people there, an official said. 00:19 Ship crashes into airport bridge as Typhoon Jebi reaches Japan - video TV stations also showed footage of a 100m (328 ft) tall ferris wheel in Osaka spinning furiously in the strong wind despite being switched off. “I’ve never seen such a thing,” a 19-year-old man at the scene told NHK. Evacuation advisories were issued for 1.19 million people, along with a stronger but non-mandatory evacuation order for a further 16,000 people, as the wind and rain began to intensify on Tuesday afternoon. Most of those advised to leave their homes and head to 1,500 temporary shelters were in the western port city of Kobe. The meteorological agency said in a televised warning that the system could trigger violent winds, landslides and flooding in southern and south-western parts of the archipelago, as well as high tides, lightning and tornadoes. The prime minister, Shinzō Abe, urged residents to “evacuate early” and cancelled a planned trip to Kyushu in Japan’s south-west so he could oversee the government’s response. While the typhoon is not expected to make a direct hit on Tokyo, its path will take it over the cities of Osaka and Kyoto before it heads out to sea, according to the meteorological agency. Pedestrians using umbrellas struggle against strong winds and rain in Tokyo. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA The agency added that if Jebi maintained its current strength of 216kmh (135mph) it would be the first “very strong typhoon” to strike Japan since 1993, when a powerful typhoon left 48 people dead or missing. “It is possible that [Jebi] will make landfall while maintaining its extreme strength,” said Ryuta Kurora, the agency’s chief forecaster. In the hours before the storm made landfall, some areas were already experiencing violent storms ”and the storms will get stronger and stronger”, he added. The typhoon comes soon after parts of Japan were hit by torrential rains in July that killed more than 200 people. One resident of Osaka said her house was shaking and the lights were flickering on and off. People in nearby Kobe said on social media that the wind was shaking their apartment buildings and ripping branches off trees. As it made its way north from the southern island of Okinawa, Jebi was already causing widespread disruption to flights and public transport. More than 700 domestic and international flights were cancelled, along with scores of ferry and train services, the public broadcaster NHK said. Bullet train services were reduced, while schools closed for the day. The meteorological agency said Jebi was expected to pass over the Sea of Japan by late Tuesday and to have weakened to an extra-tropical cyclone by Wednesday morning. Agencies contributed to this report