Japan Typhoon Kills Many

The death toll from Talas, a typhoon that hit Japan continues to rise. As of Tuesday the powerful typhoon had killed at least 37 people with many more missing.

Emergency response teams have been kept busy airlifting supplies to towns cut off by Talas. In many areas flooding, landslides and damage to roads prevented help from arriving quickly.

Before Talas hit Japan almost half a million people were told to evacuate. Currently 3000 remain in evacuation centres.

Luckily the typhoon did not ravage the same areas hit by the tsunami in early March. 

Talas is a word from the Phillipines that means sharpness. It is the worst storm to hit Japan since 2004.