Hello and welcome, this is Jith Dullakyan, you are watching It's Tomorrow News. Typhoon Higibis is weakening but still a danger for Japan. Typhoon Higibis is weakening but remains a powerful western Pacific ocean tropical cyclone and is likely to become the second formidable typhoon in just over a month's time to strike Japan including Tokyo this weekend. Higibis was center more than 600 miles south of Tokyo as of Friday morning local time and was category 4 strength according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Higibis has previously been a super typhoon, a term-given typhoons with estimated maximum winds of at least 150 miles per hour for 78 hours since rapidly intensifying Sunday into Monday. Higibis is a large tropical cyclone. Two rugby World Cup matches have been cancelled in Japan as the country prepares to be hit by a super typhoon with a potential to cause widespread damage from torrential rains 10 high wind speed. Typhoon Higibis which means speed in Filipino had sustained speeds of 270 km per hour early on Thursday along with strong gust. Speeds are expected to fall before it makes landfall in the Tokyo region over the weekend. This is moving north-westward but it will make a call toward the north and north-east Friday into Saturday putting it on a collision course with Japan's largest main island Huju. The typhoon will make wikening as it nears Japan because it increasingly unfavorable upper level winds dry air and cooler sea surface temperatures. That said, Higibis will still be strong and dangerous typhoon as it makes its cold closest pass Saturday into early Sunday local time. If Higibis makes landfall over southern Huju, a dangerous storm surge is also expected with the arrival of Higibis and it would be highest to the east of the center along coastal areas facing the Pacific Ocean and in smaller-based opening to the south. If its center turns sharper and breaks just to the east of Huju, the surged threat would be lower but some coastal flooding will still result ahead of the typhoon's passing. Higibis is expected to trigger flash flooding and mudslide particularly in high terrain. This impacts could begin in southern Huju as soon as Friday night local time given the size of Higibis and the large ocean swells it has already generated. Higibis is poised to strike Japan just over a month after typhoon Faksai, hammered Tokyo and Cheebaprefecture damaging 34,000 buildings, knocking out power to 9,000-30,000 homes, snorling air and rail travel and causing over a half billion dollars in agricultural damage according to the officials. Higibis is the 19th name storm of the year in the western Pacific Ocean according to digital typhoon. That's all for now for more news updates, stay tuned with us, it's tomoronuz, jidhulakia. For more weather updates like this, please subscribe to our channel.