Aug 15 (NHK) - With Severe Tropical Storm Krosa approaching western Japan, evacuation instructions had been issued to five people in three households in Wakayama Prefecture as of 4 a.m. Thursday. The instruction urges immediate evacuation.
Evacuation advisories have been issued in Kochi and prefectures in Shikoku and Kyushu.
The advisory, a level-4 alert on a scale of 5, meaning residents should quickly flee to safer ground, is in place for more than 190,000 households, or about 400,000 residents, in those regions.