POWERFUL typhoon  Roke  smashed into disaster-ravaged Japan yesterday and headed for the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, where workers raced to protect buildings and reactors that are leaking radiation.
The storm, which was packing winds of up to 198 kilometres (123 miles) per hour, has killed at least five people and a million were initially warned to leave their homes over fears torrential rains could cause widespread flooding.
In photo, surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, yesterday, less than a month after a vicious storm left 100 dead. (AP Photo/Chunichi Shimbun, Daiji Yanagida)