Large Typhoon Champi was traveling over waters north of the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture on Saturday morning and was forecast to move north over the East China Sea through Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The 30th typhoon of this year could approach the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan on Monday morning and is expected to become an extratropical cyclone by Tuesday morning, moving toward the Pacific off western and eastern Japan.

On Saturday morning, a weather front extending across western Japan brought heavy rain to Mie Prefecture. The agency is urging caution for possible heavy rain in northern Kyushu, the Chugoku and Kinki western regions and the Hokuriku central region through around Monday.

At 9 a.m., the typhoon was moving east at 15 kph over waters about 50 kilometers north-northeast of Yonaguni Island on Japan’s western border.…