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More than 780,000 people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate immediately as Typhoon Haishen threatens to hit the region.

As of 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, evacuation orders were issued to the following municipalities -- Goto City and Sasebo City in Nagasaki Prefecture, Kuma Village and Tsunagi Town in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kijo Town in Miyazaki Prefecture, Toshima Village, Tarumizu City, Kanoya City, Kagoshima City, Mishima Village, Nishinoomote City, Makurazaki City, Satsumasendai City, Minamiosumi Town, and Kinko Town in Kagoshima Prefecture.

More than 530,000 people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate immediately as Typhoon Haishen threatens to hit the region.

As of 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, evacuation orders were issued to over 36,000 people in Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture.

More than 430,000 people in southwestern Japan have been ordered to evacuate immediately as Typhoon Haishen threatens to hit the region.

As of 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, evacuation orders were issued to over 36,000 people in Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide has stressed that the government will respond firmly to repeated entries by Chinese ships into Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands.

Japan controls the islands. China and Taiwan claim them. Next Monday will mark 10 years since a Chinese fishing boat rammed into a Japan Coast Guard vessel in the islands' territorial waters in the East China Sea.

Japan's Meteorological Agency is warning that a powerful typhoon will approach or land in the country's main southwestern island of Kyushu at close to full strength between Sunday and Monday.

Weather officials are calling on people to start preparing as soon as possible for Typhoon Haishen.

Japan's Meteorological Agency is warning that a powerful typhoon will approach or land in the country's main southwestern island of Kyushu at close to full strength between Sunday and Monday.

Weather officials are calling on people to start preparing as soon as possible for Typhoon Haishen.

Pricing for the 2021 Honda Civic Type R has been announced, and that includes the Limited Edition model that was revealed back in March. The Phoenix Yellow hot hatch carries a large price premium of $6,500 over the base model for a total of $44,950.

You do get a number of special features for the extra money. The Limited Edition is an exclusive model, with just 600 coming to the United States. It's the only model to get the Phoenix Yellow paint color, a throwback to past Type R models. It also features lightweight forged BBS wheels that save a total of 18 pounds, and other little bits have been removed to save a further 28 pounds from the body. It's also the version that recently set a lap record at Suzuka in Japan.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has decided to exclude rank-and-file voters from voting in its presidential election. Three likely contenders have emerged…the government's top spokesperson Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide, LDP policy chief Kishida Fumio and the party's former secretary general, Ishiba Shigeru.

Suga is the first to gain support from large party factions, and is expected to announce his candidacy on Wednesday. But so far, he's stayed quiet publically when it comes to his intentions.

Google has since announced that they have worked together with Canon in which it would allow Canon’s cameras to connect to WiFi and if there is an available internet connection, allow the camera to backup the photos stored on it to Google Photos. All you would need is a Google account, the latest version of Canon’s image.canon app, and you’re good to go.

According to Google, “With the latest version of the image.canon app (available on Android or iOS) and a compatible Canon camera, you can choose to automatically transfer original quality photos to Google Photos, eliminating the hassle of using your computer or phone to back them up.”

Tennis champion Osaka Naomi has pulled out of a tournament in the United States as protests spread across the country over the police shooting of a black man.

Osaka was scheduled to play in a semifinal on Thursday at the Western and Southern Open in New York.

A teenager has been arrested after two people were shot dead during protests in the US state of Wisconsin over the police shooting of a black man.

Protests have been continuing after Jacob Blake was critically injured when he was shot in the back seven times at close range on Sunday in the city of Kenosha.

People in the Tokyo metropolitan area say they have witnessed what appeared to be a ball of light falling from the sky.

An NHK camera at Japan's tallest structure, Tokyo Skytree, captured the occurrence shortly after 10:30 PM on Friday.

Officials in Tokyo say 26 people died of heatstroke in the metropolitan area over nine days through Monday, as a severe heat wave continues to grip Japan.

The Medical Examiner's Office said about 80 percent of the victims were aged 70 or over.

Sweltering heat continued in Japan on Monday, with temperatures topping 38 degrees Celsius in some eastern and western parts of the country.

The highest temperature recorded by 02:00 p.m. was 38.6 degrees in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture.