Typhoons Saudel, Narra and Gaenari, which have formed successively with strengthening power, have brought heavy rains to China's eastern and southern coastal regions, prompting the central authorities to activate an emergency response to the worst-hit areas on Sunday.
The back-to-back typhoons, the 18th, 19th and 20th of the season, are forecast to impact a large swathe of China over the coming days, according to the Central Meteorological Observatory (CMA).
The CMA continued to issue a blue alert for typhoons on Sunday, urging coastal regions to brace for prolonged wind and rain.
Currently, Typhoon Narra is still lashing south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangdong Province, and Hainan Province with wind and rain.
Typhoon Gaenari is forecast to impact Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces on China's eastern coast as well as Guangdong with torrential rainfall over the next several days, while heavy downpours are also anticipated in parts of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces in China's northeast and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China.
Typhoon Saudel is projected to enter the East China Sea around Wednesday, with subsequent impact expected across multiple provincial-level regions.
In response to Typhoon Narra's impact, the National Commission for Disaster Prevention, Reduction and Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, dispatched 20,000 central disaster relief supplies to Guangxi on Sunday.
China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Triple typhoons bring torrential rains to south, east China, triggering disaster response
Japanese citizens gathered in Tokyo on Friday to protest against the government's attempt to breach the country's long-standing "Three Non-nuclear Principles," urging it to uphold its anti-nuclear commitment and oppose military expansion.
The protest came after Japanese media reported on Thursday that the government was considering explicitly including exceptions to the principles in its revised National Security Strategy, scheduled for the end of the year.
Japan's Three Non-Nuclear Principles stipulate that the country will not possess, produce, or permit the introduction of nuclear weapons. The current National Security Strategy, one of the country's three key security documents, explicitly states that Japan's basic policy of adhering to the principles will remain unchanged.
Protesters expressed concern that introducing exceptions would effectively undermine the principles and gradually weaken restrictions on nuclear weapons.
"Such a move is very machiavellian and disgraceful. I believe that under no circumstances should nuclear weapons be allowed into Japan. I also oppose incorporating such provisions as new clauses into the Three Non-nuclear Principles. Once this practice is accepted, the restrictions will gradually be loosened, eventually becoming uncontrollable," said a protester.
Other protesters said that the government's reported move to reconsider the non-nuclear principles is a deviation away from Japan's postwar pacifist commitment.
They also criticized the country's growing defense spending.
"Japan was defeated in the war and subsequently formulated the Constitution, which explicitly stipulates that Japan renounces the use of force. Japan thus became a country that will no longer wage a war. But now Japan's defense budget has increased by big margins every year, and there are moves to allow nuclear weapons into the country. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has even proposed reviewing the Three Non-nuclear Principles, a national policy that people across the country have upheld tighter all along. I find the current government's stance very disappointing," said another protester.
"Japan has always followed the Constitution of the country and formulated and adhered to the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' in accordance with it. But now the Takaichi administration is trying to breach this principle, and I oppose this. In the final analysis, I simply cannot feel at ease if Japan possesses nuclear weapons," said a protester.
Japanese rally against attempt to breach "Three Non-Nuclear Principles"
