Typhoon Champi brings strong winds, damages shops in Ishigaki

Typhoon Champi damaged several shops in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture in Japan, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to the island.

The storm was briefly a super typhoon as it crossed the ocean in recent days, with reported maximum sustained wind speeds of nearly 300 kilometres per hour. Champi is the latest in a busy Pacific storm season turbocharged by the El Nino weather phenomenon that has caused unprecedented warming in the equatorial Pacific.