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Crashing waves on the beach in Kamakura, south of Tokyo in 2010 when Typhoon Chaba hit the mainland. AP/Press Association Images

Powerful typhoon hits Japan mainland

A 29-year-old man was swept away by high waves when Jelawat hit Okinawa and was later confirmed dead, while at least 140 people were injured.

POWERFUL TYPHOON JELAWAT made landfall today on the Japanese mainland a day after hitting southern Okinawa island, where local media said it left one dead and some 140 people injured.

Packing winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour, the typhoon made landfall in central Aichi prefecture at around 7pm local time (10.00 GMT) and was moving up the main island of Honshu, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

A 29-year-old man was swept away by high waves when Jelawat hit Okinawa and was later confirmed dead, while at least 140 people were injured in eight prefectures, according to public broadcaster NHK.

The typhoon is forecast to churn north-eastwards towards Tokyo over the next 24 hours and bring torrential rainfall and towering waves up to 10 metres high.

More than 500 flights, mainly in western Japan, were cancelled today and some shinkansen bullet train services across the country had been suspended, Kyodo said.

Local authorities have ordered more than 2,000 in central Mie to evacuate, while tens of thousands of people were advised to leave home for safe shelter, according to NHK.

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    Mute Marg murphy
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:21 AM

    Apple makes products the whole world wants to buy. What does Malawi make? Not being facetious but African countries need to up their game.

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:26 AM

    Apples technology is perfect for pacifying us and addressing the trivia of life.

    Apple is becoming the opiate of the masses, the supposed must have, the have to have, the “I want”, the gimme, the mugger’s preference, the shiny and glitzy toys, the trinkets of life.

    Consume or die.

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:32 AM

    I worship the power of the brand! It gives my life meaning.

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:49 AM

    @Fiona deFreyne,
    You don’t have one then?

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:51 AM

    Aye comrade, away with your western decadencies and their corrupting influence. A day of hard labour and a bowl of borscht brings meaning to my life and glory to the mother country…

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    Mute Joe Bloggs
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:15 AM

    Go off and join the Amish if you’re that unhappy with the modern world, it would spare us the sanctimonious scorn you heap on the rest of via The Journal.

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    Mute Anne Marie Devlin
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    Apr 27th 2016, 12:23 PM

    @Marg. Many of the metals and natural resources needed in technology are mined in Africa by multinationals and it is hugely exploitative. Taxes are paid off shore and the workers are paid an absolute pittance.

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    Mute Paul Quinlan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 4:02 PM

    I have to, begrudgingly, agree. Seeing everyone on the dart, bus and street with their phones reminds me of the ketheads upstairs in button factory

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    Mute Marg murphy
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:14 PM

    @annemarie. True, it’s a governance issue. That’s why I said African countries need to up their game.

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    Mute LITTLEONE
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:11 AM

    Isn’t it great GDP 10 times bigger than a country and probably pays less tax than a county….

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:05 AM

    @LITTLEONE,
    It is up to governments to make them pay tax, no one voluntarily pays it.

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:57 AM

    Eamon, no body is forcing those companies to hire teams who work on the best way to avoid taxes or to practice lobbying or to threat governments of closing such factory for example in case they’re not left alone. Fight the right enemy.

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    Mute Shane C.
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:13 AM

    They need to get a refresh, almost cut & paste products lately and their product line is now huge and daunting with lots of very similar products for any new comers looking to make a purchase

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    Mute Daimhín De Naois
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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:02 AM

    The past number of years they’ve just been tinkering with the ios, jacks, colour, size and weight while battery life is still crap and water residue can still wreck it. If the sales continue to cool it might inspire them to actually innovate again

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    Mute Enda Ireland
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:41 AM

    ios up dates are killing apple, Forced to buy a new phone to use an App is crazy.

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    Mute Charles Bliss
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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:07 AM

    Malawi’s culture still holds voodoo priests and Ju-Ju in high regard. Apple does not.

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:48 AM

    Why shouldn’t Apple make more money than Malawi?
    These people are so backward they are still murdering “witches” and albinos.
    http://latesttori.com/in-malawi-mob-set-couple-ablaze-on-allegations-of-witchcraft/

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:31 AM

    I aspire to own an Apple for truly Apple is the way and the truth, the path to meaning, the recorder of verities, the staff of daily existence, our crutch and our strength. Know this. If it is a 2016 version, it is truly blessed but if it is an earlier model it means that you are not worthy. Hear the words and tunes of Apple. Bow down and worship the great White little things which are even more beautiful in Rose gold, for we are truly blessed.

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    Mute Brian
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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:16 AM

    Genuinely the weirdest comments from one person I read on here .

    “Sent from my iPhone “

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:55 AM

    The people of Apple make technological marvels that the people of Malawi couldn’t make if they tried to do so for a billion years.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybgQJlYRrZs&ab_channel=GuyCockcroft

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    Mute Rúairí O’ Sullivan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:09 AM

    Calm down Eamon. We got it, you love Apple! Well done, your special

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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:50 AM

    I think if they gave it a billion years the people of Malawi could indeed make an iPhone or even something better. But the results from the first quarter of 2016 aren’t looking promising. Malawi is “off track”.

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:45 PM

    @Rúairí O’ Sullivan,
    No, I couldn’t care less about Apple and I don’t own one either. I’m just sick and tired of hearing about these African hell holes.

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    Mute Can't Think of One
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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:34 AM

    Maybe Malawi and Africa in general should get its act together then. Wait..no. It’s all our fault.

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    Mute Patrick O Shea
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    Apr 27th 2016, 2:41 PM

    APPLE rotten to the core

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    Mute Fiona deFreyne
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    Apr 27th 2016, 4:40 PM

    I Apple, therefore I am.

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    Apr 27th 2016, 3:54 PM

    Wrong on every level

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