High winds hit power lines in Japan's Okinawa and knocked out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday morning, as powerful and slow-moving typhoon Khanun neared the country's southwestern islands threatening torrential rains.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the tropical prefecture, a popular tourist destination some 1,600 km southwest of Japan's capital Tokyo,Local utility Okinawa Electric Power
said 218,260 households, or 34% of all houses covered, were experiencing power outages as of 9:00 a.m. Japan time , according to its website. In Okinawa's capital city Naha, the airport was entirely closed for a second day on Wednesday. More than 400 flights were already cancelled as of morning with at least 65,000 passengers affected, according to public broadcaster NHK.to pre-pandemic levels. Okinawa is frequently hit by typhoons, but usually later in the year.
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