For 160 thousand inhabitants in the south-west of Japan, evacuation was announced in connection with the passage of Typhoon “Verpit”. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the NHK TV channel.
So, about 139 thousand inhabitants of the northern part of Kyushu island, six thousand Japanese in the Fukuoka Prefecture, about two thousand – in the Oita prefecture, and 13 thousand are in Kagoshima Prefecture.