Typhoon Ma-On Nears Japan, May Strike Tokyo
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A powerful typhoon, one of the strongest  storms recorded in Asia this year, churned toward Japan on  Saturday, lashing the nation with heavy rain, prompting  evacuations and threatening to strike Tokyo.
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TOKYO A powerful typhoon that struck southwestern Japan has left two people dead and 16 others injured, the police said. Typhoon Tokage lashed the island of Shikoku on Wednesday afternoon with sustained winds
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A typhoon moving towards Japan was forecast on Wednesday to hit a region near Tokyo later in the week and bring heavy rains and strong winds to the capital.
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Typhoon Meari, the eighth tropical cyclone to reach Japan this year, is passing through the northern Tohoku area at 60 kilometers (37 miles) an hour toward the Pacific Ocean with a maximum wind of 83 kilometers an hour.
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Typhoon Man-yi killed three people and injured more than 70 in Japan but weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it moved across the country's central region bringing heavy rain, strong winds and landslides.
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Typhoon Tokage, the 23rd tropical storm of this season, may pass through Japan&#39;s main islands this week. The typhoon, which the Japan Meteorological Agency describes as ``extra
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TOKYO  - The biggest typhoon to hit Japan in more than a decade roared over the country&#39;s main island, with heavy rain and fierce winds leaving at least 16 people dead and 12 others missing.
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A powerful typhoon passed over a small   group of Japanese islands on Saturday, but forecasters said the   storm would veer further north into the Pacific and have little   impact on Tokyo.
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A powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan on Monday, toppling trees and telephone poles with strong winds and torrential rains. Two elderly men died after being knocked down by strong winds, while 18 people were injured and one was missing.
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The most powerful typhoon to barrel into Japan&#39;s Pacific coastline in a decade made its landfall on Saturday. It unleashed gales and blinding sheets of rain that ground planes, flood homes and set off mudslides.
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A powerful typhoon loomed off southwestern Japan Sunday, threatening large areas of the country with fierce wind and rain.
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TOKYO - Typhoon Meari landed on Kyushu on Wednesday morning and was moving northeast in Miyazaki Prefecture at 4 pm, bringing heavy rains and strong wind to southern and western Japan and causing the evacuation of residents and some injuries.
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Western Kyushu was bracing this morning for Typhoon No. 18, a much more powerful storm than one that killed nine people across the nation last week, Japan Meteorological Agency officials said.
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A strong typhoon lashed Japan on Friday, bringing torrential downpours and violent winds that left one person dead, more than 40 injured and flooded hundreds of homes.
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Tokyo - Powerful Typhoon Meari hit Japan&#39;s southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday morning, causing power failures and evacuation orders.
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TOKYO Typhoon Chaba hit northern Japan on Tuesday after leaving at least 11 feared dead elsewhere in the country, while the Northern Mariana Islands braced for another storm and the death toll from flooding in the Philippines rose to 43.
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The Japanese mainland is under threat from another typhoon - the second in less than two weeks. Typhoon Tokage has been lashing the southern Okinawa islands with heavy rain and winds gusting above 140 kilometres an hour.