Typhoon Lizard kills at least 55 (no 80)!

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Typhoon leaves 55 dead, 33 missing in Japan
Wednesday, TOKYO Oct. 21 Kyodo
- Typhoon Tokage cleared Japan Thursday morning, leaving at least 55 people dead, 33 missing and more than 290 injured and disrupting transportation services across the country....

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Typhoon produces eight-storey wave
Daily Telegraph, Australia - 23 Oct
TYPHOON Tokage produced the biggest wave ever recorded in Japan as its rampaged across the country this week, claiming nearly 80 lives, the government said ...
...The 24-metre-high wave, the size of an eight-storey building, was monitored off the port of Muroto on the southern island of Shikoku on Wednesday, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said.
It was the highest wave recorded in the country since the ministry started monitoring wave heights in 1970.....
Towering waves crushed a sea wall and 14 houses at Muroto, some 600km south-west of Tokyo, killing three people there.