Powerful Typhoon Lashes Japan (inc. Fukushima); Thousands Evacuate
A powerful typhoon lashed Japan on Monday, leaving two dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country's popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where 260,000 people in the city center were ordered to evacuate to shelters.
Typhoon Man-yi, packing wind speeds of 162 kilometers per hour (100 mph) Monday evening, was centered over the city of Miyako, about 550 kilometers (350 miles) north of Tokyo.
Trains in Tokyo and its vicinity were largely suspended and hundreds of flights were grounded.
Dozens of people were injured. Police and disaster management officials said the body of a 72-year-old woman was dug out of the debris of her home, which was smashed by a mudslide the night before in Shiga prefecture, east of Kyoto. A 77-year-old woman was found dead in a mudslide in Fukui prefecture.
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Stay safe folks 
from the ironically named Arashiyama ("Stormy Mountain"
area.
The Kinki area (including Kyoto, Osaka, Shiga, etc.) was the hardest hit, with once-in-decades flood events. The Yomiuri Shimbun wrote that even central Tokyo had gusts that sometimes reached 70mph, but where I am, 30-some-odd miles north of there, and right along the typhoon's trajectory, it was relatively calm, even though they were issuing dire warnings for here. This morning, there weren't even the large masses of fallen leaves and branches that usually accompany a typhoon around here.
