TOKYO (AFP) - A powerful typhoon was closing in on Japan Tuesday, on a path that will take it towards the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Typhoon Wipha, packing winds of up to 144 kilometres (89 miles) per hour near its centre, was in the Pacific south of Japan early Tuesday and moving north at 20 kilometres per hour.
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