Typhoon hits tsunami ravaged Japan
Typhoon Roke hit Japan with winds of up to 220 km per hour and dumped more than 40 cm of rain in parts of eastern and western Japan over the past 24 hours.
Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan as a powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast.Chunichi Shimbun, Daiji Yanagida/AP
Damaged cars are seen at a factory close to the Shonai river in Nagoya, central Japan, after the area was flooded due to typhoon Roke approaching.Toru Hanai
An aerial view of flooded Toyokawa, central Japan. Typhoon Roke, the second big storm to hit Japan this month, was packing winds of up to 220 km per hour and dumped more than 40 cm of rain in parts of eastern and western Japan over the past 24 hours.Kyodo/REUTERS
A rainbow is seen during sunset after typhoon Roke passes in Toyota, central Japan.Toru Hanai/REUTERS
Rescue workers transport evacuees in a boat through floodwaters in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in central Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were warned to leave their homes as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding.JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images
Cars drive through a flooded Route 151 due to Typhoon Roke in Toyokawa, central Japan.Kyodo/REUTERS
People wade through a flooded underpass of a railway station in Kasugai, central Japan.Kyodo/AP
Policemen attempt to remove a tree toppled by strong wind due to Typhoon Roke at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Japan.Shizuo Kambayashi/AP
A parking lot is covered with trash from a flooded river due to heavy rain in Nagoya, central Japan as a powerful typhoon approached.Kyodo News/AP
A passer-by struggles with strong winds and rain caused by Typhoon Roke in Tokyo.Kim Kyung-Hoon /REUTERS
Passengers wait for the resumption of train service after it was halted by Typhoon Roke, at Shibuya station in Tokyo.Kim Kyung-Hoon /REUTERS
A man walks past a driftwood seen near Shonai river after it was flooded due to typhoon Roke in Kasugai, central Japan.Kyodo/REUTERS