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    Typhoon Talas kills at least 15 as it passes Japan

    TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas killed at least 15 people in Japan as the storm moved northward Sunday past the country's western coast. At least 43 others are missing, local media said.

    Evacuation orders and advisories were issued to 460,000 people in western and central Japan, Kyodo News agency reported.

    NHK TV footage showed a bridge that had been swept away after intense rainfall caused a river to swell with brown torrents. People holding umbrellas waded through knee-deep water in city streets and residential areas.

    The center of the season's 12th typhoon was moving slowly north across the Sea of Japan off the country's west coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It crossed the southern island of Shikoku and the central part of the main island of Honshu overnight Saturday.

    That area is hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast.

    Because of the storm's slow speed, the agency warned that heavy rains and strong winds are likely to continue and could lead to flooding and landslides.

    Three homes were buried in a landslide in Wakayama prefecture. One woman who was rescued whose identity was still being confirmed later died, four remained missing and a 14-year old girl was saved from the debris, police said.

    Overall in the hard-hit prefecture, 10 people were dead and 32 people were missing, they said.

    Seven people were reported missing in nearby Nara prefecture after homes were swept down a river, NHK said.

    Among the dead was a woman who appeared to be in her 30s whose body was found in a river in Ehime prefecture on Shikoku, police said.

    A 73-year-old man in Nara prefecture died after a landslide caused his house to collapse, police said.

     

    24 comments

    • gloria  •  8 mths ago
      becareful 2 everyone
    • A real american  •  8 mths ago
      Rain rain don't go away, untill washed all the terrorist evil Hindus away
    • Still Confused  •  8 mths ago
      I love all the Prophets and their doomsday messages. Typhoons have been a part of the worlds history from the beginning of time. Typhoons will hit land and will cause damage, I doubt that a higher power says I am going to make it hit here.
    • danman  •  8 mths ago
      God loves the people of Japan, even though typhoons and earthquakes can cause a lot of destruction.
      • iStingYou 8 mths ago
        Amen! And don't forget...the Nazis are also God's children.
      • 303 8 mths ago
        He told you that Himself, did He Danman?
    • Justin  •  8 mths ago
      Happy labor day! Make sure you hit up the sales and buy some imported communist crap from asia, and have a fruit salad picked by illegal immigrants. Make sure you eat it with a BPA enriched plastic fork from china as well. After all isnt globalism the answer??? Cheers all, and happy labor day again!
    • Dez  •  8 mths ago
      Michelle Bachman must think those Japanese are BAD, BAD, people !
    • good times  •  8 mths ago
      did it clear out any of that radiation over there?
      • jhum 8 mths ago
        168 times the radiation as Hiroshima- what do you think?
    • wow  •  8 mths ago
      We need weather engineering to even out the weather.
    • wow  •  8 mths ago
      Drought in the south, but heavy rain elsewhere. Life is not fair!
    • marina  •  8 mths ago
      what , in God's name, is going on??
      it seems to me, is it too much access to all news, or simply things start falling down on this planet?
    • O.G. - Oscar the Grouch  •  8 mths ago
      as i was told: get over it, life goes it.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      Japan and the US and others are suffering from major storms or natural disasters. The lives of millions in Japan, in the US and all others are turned upside down from their personal economy to being in the paths of choices of storms. For millions, lives will never be the same whether it is unemployment, fire or weather destructions. Yet, the haves still refuse to put their feet in the shoes of the have nots. Maybe this kind of social division is triggering Mother Nature's anger too.
      • JonGo 8 mths ago
        Nature has anger? Like the cartoon animals have human attributes? Sure!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  8 mths ago
      Ga man..endure. God bless Japan.
    • William  •  8 mths ago
      May it be well with the peoples of Japan.
    • zizzel  •  8 mths ago
      Psalms-95-5-"...All the gods of the pagans are devils..." Antipope Benedict 16 and his vatican II sect are to blame for the world's ills and devil worshipers spreading wickedness. The wrath of Our Lord is upon us all. His second coming is very near!
      • A kid from back then 8 mths ago
        Oh brother, what i wouldn't give to put all of you religious lunatics in an asylum, locked away for ever. I bet you, half of our social problems will be washed away in an instance, with you fanatics out of the picture.
      • woody 8 mths ago
        I dont think it has anything to do with the pope or the vatican, however it does seem as if the world is in alot of dispair. and my thinking is it will get worse. and let me inform the kid from back where ever that the social problems will not be washed away just because you think there are religious lunatics out there. there all kinds of lunatics out there. serial killers, are one example and the list goes on.
    • omar  •  8 mths ago
      I love Japan almost more than any where else in this world (except my homeland). I wish this wasn't happening there. Good luck to you Japan!
    • calven  •  8 mths ago
      Have global catastrophy events really picked up, or is the media just far more hysterical and globalized--making it seem that way?
    • A  •  8 mths ago
      In the End Days.....The Bible has written in the Book of Revelation....Birth Pains......Turn to the God of Heaven People.....Choose the Kingdom of Heaven...You will Live in Eternity with him no matter what comes to the Nations on Earth.......Stop living in Fear!!!
    • Devil's Advocate  •  8 mths ago
      GOD IS JUDGING THE COUNTRY OF JAPAN
    • Ken  •  8 mths ago
      japan going to hill ,hahhaha
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