Typhoon Roke Weakens, Causes Flooding, as It Crosses Japan
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Typhoon Roke is moving across central Japan, flooding streets and disrupting travel on a path toward the nuclear power plant in Fukushima stricken in last March’s tsunami. The storm has killed at least three people.
Roke, with winds of about 139 kilometers (86 miles) per hour, was near Motegi, Japan, about 145 kilometers north-northeast of Tokyo, according to an advisory at 8:40 p.m. local time by the Japanese Meteorological Agency. It was moving northeast at 55 kph.