Typhoon kills 14 in Japan

At least 14 people have been killed after a powerful typhoon passed close to the Japanese capital, reports say.

The typhoon, nicknamed Wipha, caused landslides and flooding on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo.

Many people died when houses collapsed or were buried in mudslides. Two were found dead near a river.

At the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, operators pumped out rain water from around storage tanks holding contaminated water.

In Tokyo, flights were cancelled, bullet train services suspended and schools closed.

"It is the strongest typhoon in 10 years to pass the Tokyo area region," Hiroyuki Uchida, the Japan Meteorological Agency's chief forecaster, told journalists on Tuesday.

The storm brought strong winds and record rainfall - 122mm (4.8 inches) in one hour on Wednesday morning - to Izu Oshima island, which lies some 120km (75 miles) south of Tokyo.

Officials on the island said that 13 bodies had found and more than 50 people were unaccounted for.