[Anchor]

Typhoon Champi is moving past the waters south of Jeju Island toward Kyushu, Japan. Although it weakened into an extratropical cyclone overnight, heavy rain is still forecast for various parts of Japan.

Reporting from Tokyo, this is Mun Junmo.

[Reporter]

Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, which was battered by Typhoon Champi.

Utility poles are scattered across the road, and thick street trees have snapped under the fierce winds.

In Miyakojima, a woman in her 70s suffered fractures after being knocked down by strong winds, and a 7-year-old child injured their head on a shattered window in Yonaguni Island.

Power was cut off to 13,000 households within the prefecture, and some areas even experienced water outages, prompting Okinawa Prefecture to request disaster relief from the Self-Defense Forces.

Earlier in Taiwan, damage piled up as one person was swept away by high waves and died, with over 500 others injured.

[Taipei Resident: I saw the news that average wind speeds in Taipei City could reach 70 to 80 kilometers per hour, and it was truly terrifying.]

This is because the humid air brought by the typhoon is stimulating a front stalled over the Japanese archipelago, raising expectations for heavy rain in various regions through tomorrow (October 27).

Over the 24 hours until daytime today, rainfall is expected to reach up to 200 mm in northern Kyushu and Shikoku, and 150 mm in southern Kyushu, with heavy rain also forecast for the Kanto region, including Tokyo.

On Tsushima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, the 24-hour precipitation exceeded 200 mm, breaking the record for the highest October observation.

The Meteorological Agency has urged caution, warning that secondary damage such as landslides and flooding could follow.

(Filmed by Moon Hyun-jin | Video Edited by Kim Jong-mi | Graphics by Kang Yoon-jung)