Typhoon Shanshan is wreaking havoc in Japan's southwestern region of Kyushu.

NHK has learned that as of noon on Thursday, a total of 54 people have been injured and one person remains missing in Kyushu.

Thirty people have been injured in Miyazaki Prefecture, 15 people in Kagoshima Prefecture and three people in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Also, two people each in Kumamoto and Oita prefectures, and one person each in Fukuoka and Saga prefectures have been injured.

In Kagoshima City, a man in his 60s went missing after he fell into the sea from a small boat at a wharf at Kagoshima Port on Wednesday night.

Nagasaki City at 11 a.m. on Thursday issued an evacuation order for all areas of the city, covering 393,051 residents.
An evacuation order is level four of the five-tier warning scale. It calls on all people in an area to evacuate from dangerous places.

Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution says that as of 10 a.m. on Thursday, 255,730 homes and businesses were without power in the Kyushu region's seven prefectures.

Japan's health ministry says that as of 9 a.m., power outages have been confirmed at a total of six medical institutions in Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture.

The ministry says all the facilities are using in-house generation and no casualties from the power outage have been reported so far.