{"id":234378,"date":"2019-10-13T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T04:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234378"},"modified":"2019-10-13T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T04:09:37","slug":"saskatchewan-premier-among-canadians-sheltering-in-place-in-typhoon-battered-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/13\/saskatchewan-premier-among-canadians-sheltering-in-place-in-typhoon-battered-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan premier among Canadians sheltering in place in typhoon battered Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PremierScottMoe\/photos\/a.682046531839746\/2688917464485966\/?type=3&amp;theater\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PremierScottMoe\/photos\/a.682046531839746\/2688917464485966\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>The sky is clear here in Tokyo after Typhoon Hagibis swept through last night accompanied by a 5.7 magnitude earthquake&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PremierScottMoe\/\">Scott Moe<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PremierScottMoe\/photos\/a.682046531839746\/2688917464485966\/?type=3\">Saturday, October 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Saskatchewan&#8217;s premier was sheltering in place in Tokyo on Saturday as a powerful typhoon battered the Japanese city.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Moe, who is on a trade mission in Asia, said some of the official delegation travelled to South Korea ahead of schedule in anticipation of the typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>Moe said he and the rest of the delegation in Tokyo are safe and in consistent communication with the Canadian Embassy in case the storm worsens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with those affected by typhoon Hagibis here in Japan, a country that has been incredibly friendly and welcoming to myself and the Saskatchewan delegation during our time in Tokyo,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Hagibis, which means \u201cspeed\u201d in\u00a0Filipino, is forecast to be the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in six decades and officials warn it could bring as much as 76 millimetres of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency called an afternoon news conference to warn of heavy rainfall in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, including Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe ready for rainfall of the kind that you have never experienced,\u201d said agency official Yasushi Kajihara, adding that areas usually safe from disasters may prove vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake all measures necessary to save your life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s game against Namibia at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday was cancelled because of the typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby issued a statement saying an evacuation order remained in place in the Kamaishi area where the game was set to be played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKamaishi is situated in a highly mountainous area, including mountains directly behind the main stand of the stadium. There have been landslides and flooding in the vicinity of the stadium and along access roads to the venue following torrential rain throughout the night,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Lance Stroll was among the Formula One drivers forced to spend the day at their hotels as the Japanese Grand Prix circuit was shuttered.<\/p>\n<p>The F1 race remained scheduled to run on Sunday afternoon with qualifying earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally disappointed we&#8217;re not on the track,\u201d Stroll said in a video recording alongside Mexico&#8217;s Sergio Perez posted to Twitter Saturday. \u201cBut plenty of action coming tomorrow, stay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky is clear here in Tokyo after Typhoon Hagibis swept through last night accompanied by a 5.7 magnitude earthquake&#8230;. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":234379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234380,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234378\/revisions\/234380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}