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Hiroshi HIYAMA

UNCOVERED: Powerful typhoon shanshan slams into southern japan - Caught on Camera

A Japan Meteorological Agency satellite photo shows typhoon Shanshan moving closer to Kyushu island (Credit: AFP)

Typhoon Shanshan slammed into Japan's main southern island of Kyushu early Thursday, with authorities advising thousands of people to evacuate and issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges.

The weather office said that Japan's most powerful typhoon this year made landfall at around 8:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday) packing gusts of up to 252 kilometres (157 miles) per hour.

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