Chanthu has an uncanny ability to pick the gaps. If i didn't know better i'd think it was being remote controlled to avoid landfall. Just missed the Philippines north east then went due north - followed the contour of the Taiwan coast up towards Shanghai - is now stalled there just off the coast - then expected to sneak through between Korea and Japan. Supposed to finally make landfall on the mid-north west coast of Japan. Bet they don't get too many typhoons striking there. Of course it will be well-reduced by then but it is feeding rain into Japan from it's outlet as it comes - so could be some heavy falls for Japan's southern regions. https://www.jma.go.jp/bosai/map.html#5/32.306/130.43/&elem=precipitation24h&con...

As an aside, you could control a typhoon's path if you could create weaknesses in the high-pressure ridge - draw it towards the weakness. So if you could create a low pressure or a cold front then it could be done - but don't know how you'd do that.