TOKYO (Reuters) - Typhoon Vongfong battered the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Sunday, injuring 31 people and knocking out power before losing intensity and getting downgraded to a tropical storm.
Around 210,000 people from 90,000 homes were ordered to evacuate in Okinawa, 1,600 km (1,000 miles) south of Tokyo, before it was hit by what was Japan's strongest storm this year.
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