bbc.co.uk - 17 September 2013
People in Kyoto were forced to ride boats to navigate flooded streets
A powerful typhoon has made landfall in central Japan, flooding scores of houses and forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.
Officials have asked at least 400,000 residents from four prefectures to leave their homes due to Typhoon Man-yi.
The typhoon was moving at a speed of up to 55km/ph (34 mph) by mid-day, local reports said.
