Kirk here. William just posted about some disaster response equipment that Uki City has acquired. Fortunately, it looks like they won’t need to use it right away because TropicalStorm.com is predicting that we won’t get a direct hit. Still, you never know; the rains could be quite heavy. Judging from the projections on TropicalStorm.com I would guess that the wind and rain would be at their worst for those of us in Kumamoto around Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning, but I could be off quite a bit.
I got an e-mail from the Kumamoto International Foundation with a link to the JMA (Japan Meterological Agency):
https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#4/39.3/135.132/&elem=root&typhoon=all&contents=typhoon&lang=en
I almost never share links to the English side of the JMA site because they publish their times in UTC. The only reason for that I can imagine for this is that they are more interested in making the page easy to understand for their meteorologist buddies in other countries than in helping foreigners who actually live in Japan. :( At any rate, if you look at the JMA site, you have add 9 hours to every time you see.