A powerful typhoon pounded Japan's southern main island of Kyushu with heavy rains and strong winds Tuesday, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes and knocking out power to over a million households. Across the country 75 people were injured, Kyodo News reported, while 22 crew members of an Indonesian cargo ship were missing. Police and coast guard were also investigating reports that a Russian-registered freighter had sunk in western Hiroshima prefecture (state) and its 19 crew were missing, said a prefectural police spokesman. Packing winds of up to 144 kilometers (89 miles) per hour, Typhoon Songda plowed into the city of Nagasaki, about 980 kilometers (640 miles) southwest of Tokyo, before it roared across western Honshu, dumping heavy rains and unleashing fierce winds in its path.
