Typhoon Nanmadol, the 14th typhoon of the season, made landfall on Sunday night near the city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

A Level 5 alert, the highest on Japan's disaster warning scale, was issued to more than 330,000 people in about 160,000 households in Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Oita prefectures, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday.

The report added that nearly eight million people in about 3.7 million households affected by a Level 4 alert were ordered to evacuate in parts of the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions in southern and western Japan.