Social media images shared by Hong Kong-linked travel accounts show empty bread shelves, torrential rain sweeping parts of Japanese island.

Typhoon Dolphin is moving over Japan’s southern remote islands, causing a main airport on Okinawa to close and grounding all flights in and out of the island.

The storm's outer edge is sweeping Kyushu, including Kumamoto prefecture, where about 6,700 people are still in evacuation centres after earthquake