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TOKYO : A strong typhoon was churning in the Pacific towards Japan on Wednesday and may hit the Tokyo area later in the week, the weather agency said.
Typhoon Fitow, packing winds of up to 108 kilometres (67 miles) an hour near its centre, was in the Pacific hundreds of kilometres south of Tokyo Wednesday morning and was forecast to reach Tokyo or its vicinity by early Friday.
The storm was moving north at 15 kilometres an hour.
"As the typhoon is moving slowly, the length of time in which we will suffer violent winds, rain and high waves will also be long," an official at the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Fitow is the name of a flower found in Micronesia.
Typhoons have hit Japan in July and August, killing several people and injuring dozens. - AFP/ch
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