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Powerful Typhoon Hits Mainland Japan, Disrupts Transport
A powerful typhoon drenched eastern Japan with rain Tuesday, narrowly missing Tokyo but delaying flights and traffic and causing a sea accident. Typhoon Banyan hit Japan at Kamogawa city in Chiba prefecture, 70 kilometers (44 miles) southeast of Tokyo, shortly after 8:00 pm (1100 GMT), the meteorological agency said. It was moving northeast around the speed of 35 kilometers (22 miles) per hour, the agency said. Banyan, packing winds of up to 90 kilometers (55 miles) per hour, was expected to move along the Pacific coast of eastern Japan through Wednesday. Heavy rain fell on and off in downtown Tokyo late Tuesday afternoon, with many businesspeople opting to go home early to escape the typhoon as several train services were called off. At least 43 domestic flights linking Tokyo to the rest of the country were cancelled and some expressways were impassable because of the pouring rain, public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corporation said. A sailboat was wrecked in the Pacific east of Hachijojima island, 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Tokyo, but the two crew members were rescued by an air force helicopter, a coast guard official said. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was among those who voiced concern over the typhoon. "We should be careful. I hear it's going to rain even harder. It might be a good idea if all of you went home early," Koizumi advised reporters. Rainfall for the 24 hours to noon Wednesday could reach 250 millimeters (10 inches) in most of the mainland facing the Pacific, and 150-200 milimeters (six to eight inches) in the northern part of the mainland facing the Sea of Japan, according to the weather agency. Banyan is the region's seventh typhoon of the season, although none of the others have caused any major damage to Japan. Last year a record 10 typhoons hit mainland Japan. The last of them, Tokage, was the deadliest typhoon in a quarter-century, killing 90 people. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Ocean Spray Lubricates Hurricane Winds
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2005Hurricane Emily's 140-mile-per-hour winds, which last week blew roofs off hotels and flattened trees throughout the Caribbean, owed their force to an unlikely culprit � ocean spray.
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