“All I can do now is to wait,” he said, sitting in his fishing boat, which he’d securely tied to a port facility. The storm could approach Okinawa’s main island on Friday and bring powerful rainstorms to the region, it said.Ī 76-year-old fisherman, Tatsunori Yamashiro, said he wasn’t too worried by the weakening storm. Mawar, formerly a typhoon but now packing winds of up to 108 kilometers (66 miles) per hour, was around Miyako, one of Okinawa’s remote islands, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. forces are based, appeared unworried even as they took precautions. Many residents in the prefectural capital of Naha on the main Okinawan island, where about 20,000 U.S. NAHA, Japan (AP) - A weakened Tropical Storm Mawar headed toward Japan’s southern archipelago of Okinawa on Thursday, leading businesses and the airport to close and fishermen to batten down their boats in preparation.
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