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2019 WORLD CUP – Find all the latest updated information on the situation in Japan, with the arrival of the super-Typhoon Hagibis announced the most powerful of the year …

Video – Experts worry about the consequences of the typhoon

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Friday 15:58 (22:58 local time): Hagibis: a typhoon XXL

Typhoon Hagibis is one of the biggest typhoons ever measured. According to research this week, it is the most powerful of the year in terms of pressure and the second most important in terms of speed, after Hurricane Dorian that devastated the Bahamas archipelago in August.

Hagibis is heading south east of Japan. According to a Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) official, Hagibis' current power is similar to that of four of the biggest typhoons Japan has seen in recent decades, including Faxai last month, which had caused significant damage to Chiba, in the suburbs of Tokyo.

Obviously, it is not only rugby that is affected by this climatic phenomenon. 1,200 international and domestic flights were canceled, as well as 400 rail links.

Friday 3:20 pm (10:20 pm local time): Hagibis sows panic

While Typhoon Hagibis runs along the east coast of Japan from the south, Tokyo holds its breath. The Japanese capital, so busy, should be impacted in the day of Saturday. And the threat is serious: winds announced at more than 200 km / h, torrential rains, waves of more than twenty meters crashing on the coast. If, when touching the ground, it should weaken and be downgraded to Typhoon Category 3 (out of 5, currently 5/5), Hagibis will remain of considerable power.

In anticipation, the World Cup matches taking place in this area were canceled this weekend. This obviously concerns France-England but also New Zealand-Italy. Scheduled Sunday in Yokohama, the meeting between Scotland and Japan is suspended. And the controversy swells, so much this match is decisive in the optics of the quarter-finals. Japan's Formula 1 Grand Prix, also scheduled this weekend on the archipelago, has also been canceled.