Eight Dead, Airport Flooded After Historic Typhoon Slams Into Japan
Kansai International Airport is flooded following a powerful typhoon in Izumisano, Osaka prefecture on Sept. 4.
Photographer: Kentaro Ikushima/Mainichi Newspaper/AP Photo
Tokyo (AP) -- A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, inundating the region's main international airport and blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. At least eight people died and scores were injured.
Jebi, reportedly the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, headed north across the main island of Honshu toward the Sea of Japan. It was off the northern coast of Fukui on Tuesday evening with sustained winds of 126 kilometers per hour (78 miles per hour) and gusts up to 180 kph (110 mph), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.