{"id":660539,"date":"2026-06-27T04:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660539\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:44:44","slug":"four-injured-flights-cancelled-in-japan-as-twin-storms-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660539\/","title":{"rendered":"Four injured, flights cancelled in Japan as twin storms approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a risk of extremely heavy rain at warning levels,&#8221; top government spokesman Minoru Kihara told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, we have received reports of one person seriously injured and three people with minor injuries&#8221;, as well as flooding in dozens of buildings mainly in the southern region of Kagoshima, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offer our heartfelt sympathy to all those affected by the disaster, and we will continue to gain an accurate picture of the damage situation,&#8221; he said, adding the government is cooperating with municipalities to take &#8220;emergency disaster response measures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways cancelled a total of 120 flights to and from the southern regions of Okinawa and Kagoshima.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities have advised more than 1 million residents to evacuate, warning of potential landslides and other heavy rain-related disasters, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Kyoto and Osaka said water levels in rivers were rising and warned that vigilance was required because of the threat of flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There is a risk of extremely heavy rain at warning levels,&#8221; top government spokesman Minoru Kihara told reporters.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,386,90,1054,5723,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-japan","tag-science","tag-storm","tag-typhoon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}