Japan Issues Special Typhoon Warning as ‘Unprecedented’ Storm Approaches

A director of the Japan Meteorological Agency's Forecast Division holds a press conference on Typhoon Nanmadol in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2022. STR/Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images

TOKYO—The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a special typhoon warning on Saturday for Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands, as the region braces for a powerful and potentially destructive super typhoon.