More than 25 municipalities have opened up shelters and are urging the elderly and people with mobility issues to seek refuge now. Sea travel has been disrupted in kagoshima due to high tides. Ferries have been suspended. Sayaka mori from our weather desk is tracking the storm. Its celebrated 100 kilometers to the south of okinawa. Bringing recordbreaking heavy rainfall and powerful winds. Now the system is located to the south of okinawa and its actually a rather compact system. So as the system approaches, conditions will deteriorate quite quickly. It is a violent typhoon. It looks like very stormy conditions will likely happen from monday night into early Tuesday Morning in the okinawa region. Chaba is packing winds of about 200 Kilometers Per Hour with gusts about 300 Kilometers Per Hour. It is a violent typhoon. This is the highest category on the typhoon scale. Chaba will likely move toward the north and veer north and east into wednesday. The jet stream will take the system towa
Oil production to boost prices. And blue water magic. Nature lovers around japan are trading ocean views for a breathtaking spot inland. Worried about the budget, tokyos governor ordered a panel to look at cost estimates for the 2020 olympics and paralympics. It crunched the numbers and says plans for the games need a major overhaul. Now governor yuriko koike is looking at what could be cut. Reporter you could say tokyos new governor is experiencing some olympicsized sticker shock. Translator the project proceeded without anyone knowing why the budget swelled up to 20 billion or 30 billion. Reporter yuriko koikes numbers were from a tokyo government panels estimates. The results of which were released on thursday. The panel says the total cost for the Tokyo Olympics could be more than four times the original estimate. To get to the bottom of the surging cost, koike had set up an Investigation Team to look at the books for the 2020 games. Controversy around the games is nothing new. The
The focus will be on preventing nuclear terrorism. Tackling intolerance. A government report says discriminatory actions against for rerns is rampant. Work thats begun to free soil around the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Tepco started the work on thursday after the Nuclear Regulation authority gave the go ahead. Workers began pumping liquid of minus 30 degrees celsius into underground pipes around the buildings. Tepco says they will freeze the soil in phases. The first phase will use 1,000 of the 1,700 pipes. Engineers will monitor groundwater levels to stop the ice wall from dropping them too much and allowing the radioactive water to leak from the buildings. A project of this magnitude has never been down before. Tepco explains now they are navigating in unchartered territory. Reporter kyoto electric power has big plans but with complicated problems comes large doses of doubt. Reduce contamination of ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Tepco officials have taken steps to
Fault shifted nearly two meters horizontally causing saturdays magnitude 7. 3 quake in southwestern japan. Tokyo stocks fall as earthquake affects sway on investor sentiment. Rescucrews in southwestern japan are racing against the clock after two powerful earthquakes. They are up against a critical 72hour mark since the most recent. And theyve been combing through mud and rubble, racing against more tremors. Thousands of rescuers are in the village of minamiaso on the island of kyushu. Nine people remain unaccounted for and two of them may be trapped under a collapsed building. Authorities say 42 people have been confirmed dead since thursday. Many were found in collapsed houses. More than 1,000 others were injured. Thousands of houses and buildings are damaged or destroyed. But officials believe all those numbers could rise. They havent been able to assess the situation in some areas. Survivors are taking refuge at city offices, schools and parking lots. Now, over 100,000 people are t
The Security Council met in a closeddoor session in new york after the tests. U. N. Sources say the members expressed concern over the launches and are working on a statement drafted on the initiative of the united states. Very clear violations of Security Council resolutions. This is a threat to Japans National security. A state Department Spokesperson condemned the tests. We once again call on these actions to cease. And as i think i indicated in a response to this earlier, we have every intention of having this discussion in the u. N. The Security Council adopted a resolution last month calling for sanctions against north korea, but the country has continued to engage in provocative actions. Nhk has learned a north korean cargo passenger vessel was operating in the same waters as a submarine when the north launched a sub missile. Sources told nhk theyve established where the cargo Passenger Ship was sailing by analyzing satellite imagery and other evidence. The sources say the vesse