A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Thursday, ripping up trees, causing widespread flooding and sending mudslides plowing into houses.

Torrential rains battered Okinawa’s islands on Wednesday as a weakened but still dangerous typhoon, leaving two dead and threatening widespread flooding as it headed for the nation’s main islands.

A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel all outdoor activity.

Typhoon Neoguri bore down on the Japanese mainland today after slamming into the southern Okinawa island chain, killing two people and leaving a trail of damage.

Typhoon Neoguri was barreling toward Okinawa on Monday, packing violent winds and torrential rains as the Japan Meteorological Agency warned residents to stay in their homes.

Crews are working to bring back electricity to thousands of homes in Atlantic Canada after post-tropical storm Arthur swept through the area.

India will need to be wary of an ‘active West Pacific typhoon (cyclone)’ for year 2014 as storms generated in seawaters next to the Bay of Bengal could affect the monsoon system here.

Typhoon Hagibis made landfall on Sunday in southern China, destroying houses, farmland, closing ports, and suspending trains and flights.

About 13,000 people have been evacuated after typhoon Hagibis landed in sea areas of Shantou City in south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday afternoon, local authorities said Monday.

Japan is scheduled to launch a new mapping satellite that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rain forests.