Typhoon Dolphin hits Japan's Okinawa, China shuts ports ahead of landfall

Typhoon Dolphin is battering Japan's southern Okinawa prefecture with sustained winds of one hundred sixty-two kilometers per hour—gusts reaching two hundred sixteen kilometers per hour. The storm has injured six people and cut power to more than fifty thousand buildings across Okinawa and neighboring Kagoshima, prompting Japanese airlines to cancel flights to the region. According to Dawn, China is bracing for the typhoon's expected arrival between late Sunday and early Monday, designating it an orange-level storm—the second-highest alert category. Officials are halting port operations, suspending ferries, and ordering fishing boats to return to port across major economic zones including Zhejiang and Shanghai. Taiwan has suspended seventy-eight flights as the system approaches East Asia.

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