Via The Japan Times: Powerful typhoon makes landfall on Japan's main island. Excerpt:
A powerful typhoon that was traveling northeastward Sunday along the coast of western Japan made landfall on the main island of Honshu after hammering the southern islands of Okinawa, where it killed a man and injured more than 50 people while causing extensive blackouts, the weather agency said.
At 7 p.m., Typhoon Jelawat made landfall in Aichi Prefecture in central Japan, with the season's 17th typhoon moving through the Japanese archipelago, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
In the village of Yomitan in Okinawa Prefecture, 29-year-old Nobuhiro Bando was confirmed dead after being washed away by high tides while he was fishing. A survey by Kyodo News on local police showed that at least 116 people had been injured across the nation on Sunday.
In Osaka's Chuo Ward, a 51-year-old female tourist from Australia was taken to a hospital after she was injured by a tree trunk that fell and hit her on the head.
The municipal government of the central Japan city of Nagoya briefly issued an evacuation advisory for a total of 57,000 people in 21,000 households amid fear of flooding due to rising water levels of rivers in the city. The Ishinomaki city government in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, issued an advisory for 11,000 people in 4,700 households in Miyagi Prefecture.
As of 11 p.m., the typhoon was located near the eastern Japan city of Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture, moving northeast at a speed of about 55 km per hour with an atmospheric pressure of 975 hectopascals at its center and packing winds of up to 180 kph.
The city of Hachioji near Tokyo recorded winds of 137.2 kph, while the cities of Fujinomiya and Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture saw 120 millimeters of rain per hour, prompting the weather agency to issue a warning for a record-breaking deluge in a short period.
