Liverpool’s pre-season friendly in Japan is set to go ahead without issue despite mass tsunami warnings across the country.
People woke up in Japan on Wednesday to learn that a warning of a tsunami up to three metres high along the pacific coast from Hokkaido to Wakayama, with officials calling on those near the coast to evacuate.
But the Premier League champions’ match at the Nissan Stadium is set to go ahead as planned, with Liverpool taking on local team Yokohama F Marinos in front of a sell-out crowd expected to be more than 72,000 strong.
The Reds will then fly home to the United Kingdom after a successful training camp in searing conditions as temperatures reached up to 37C.
The Nissan Stadium was the venue for the 2002 World Cup final between Brazil and Germany and it also hosted the 2019 Rugby World Cup final where South Africa beat England.
The match is set to kick-off at 11.30am UK time.
Liverpool’s friendly on Wednesday will go ahead in Japan despite a tsumami warning
The Japanese Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning after a 8.7 magnitude off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula
Liverpool’s friendly against the Yokohama F Marinos at the Nissan Stadium is set to go ahead
The tsunami warnings followed the world’s biggest earthquake in 14 years.
The quake reached a magnitude of 8.8 – which makes it the sixth strongest earthquake ever measured.
It struck about 84 miles east-southeast of Kamchatska, off the coast of Russia, about 7.24pm EST.
The earthquake sparked tsunami warnings across the Pacific and sent waves crashing into Russia and Japan.