NHK-A powerful typhoon is bringing violent winds and rain to wide areas of southern and western Japan, leaving two persons dead, two others missing, and 38 people injured.
The typhoon's center was passing over parts of Kagoshima Prefecture at noon on Monday. It is traveling north-northeast at a speed of 35 kilometers per hour.
At its center, the typhoon has an atmospheric pressure of 960 hectopascals.
A city in Miyazaki Prefecture registered a maximum wind speed of 198 kilometers per hour on Monday morning. That's the highest velocity ever observed in Japan.
Strong winds have destroyed three houses and damaged 30 others. More than 300 homes have been flooded and more than 342,000 homes are without power.
In the Kyushu and Shikoku regions, more than 30,000 families have been advised to move to shelters.
The winds outside right now are about the scariest I have ever seen in my ten years here.
FUCKING TYPHOON 16 can eat a fat makizushi!
