The typhoon was forecast to continue moving in a northerly direction toward Kyushu through Sept. 19 and could make landfall. It will then gradually turn eastward and cut through the main Honshu island. The typhoon will bring pounding rain to the Pacific side of a large part of Japan. For the 24-hour period until 6 a.m. on Sept. 18, the JMA was forecasting as much as 400 millimeters for southern Kyushu; 300 mm for the Shikoku and Tokai regions; 250 mm for the Amami islands; 200 mm for Okinawa, northern Kyushu and Kinki regions; and 120 mm for the Kanto-Koshin region.