After making landfall near the city of Kagoshima on the southern island of Kyushu on Sunday, Typhoon Nanmadol headed northeast as authorities issued flood and landslide warnings. As of early Monday afternoon, the typhoon was passing through Shimane Prefecture, packing sustained winds of 100 mph. While the government’s highest warning level in Kyushu was lifted, Japan Meteorological Agency officials urged affected areas to remain on alert and evacuate if necessary. “There is a risk of heavy rain and violent winds on Tuesday in western and eastern Japan. We have to continue to be very careful,” said an official of the agency. The agency predicted that up to 400mm of rain could fall in the Tokai region, southwest of Tokyo, by Tuesday morning. According to state broadcaster NHK, nearly 70 people have been injured by the storm. A man in his 60s was found dead in his car in Miyazaki on the eastern side of Kyushu, a local official said, after part of the prefecture was inundated by nearly 1 meter of rain. Rain, wind and storms have already caused significant disruption to rail, ferry and air services, causing widespread cancellations on Monday.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday delayed his flight to New York to attend the UN General Assembly by a day as government officials held meetings to assess damage from the typhoon. Ahead of the storm’s landfall on Sunday, residents of Kagoshima and the surrounding region were warned to seek shelter in the strongest buildings and, if possible, to take refuge on higher floors. Evacuation warnings for millions of people by local authorities are not mandatory – a status that, in the past, meant large numbers of people remained in their homes beyond the point where they could easily move to a shelter. Japanese media reported that tens of thousands of people were moved to evacuation centers as power was cut and mobile phone networks struggled to remain operational. The expected track charted by the weather agency showed the typhoon heading toward the southwestern region of Japan’s main island of Honshu on Monday and continuing northeast on Tuesday. Tokyo, Japan’s capital, was nowhere near the center of the typhoon’s expected path.