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Monster Typhoon Bears Down On Japanese Coast; Life-Threatening Conditions Expected in Areas of Japan & South Korea
Sep 15, 2012 07:50 PM EDT

Sanba, the monster storm system that was designated a super-typhoon on Friday has been downgraded to Typhoon status as of Saturday afternoon but is still expected to cause life-threatening conditions as it bears down on Okinawa, Japan and Japan's Ryukyu Islands Saturday night and on into Sunday.

Weather experts forecast that Sanba will be packing Category 3-equivalent maximum sustained winds of 127 miles per hour with gusts up to 155 miles per hour as it crosses Okinawa in less than 24 hours. The storm is currently moving north-northwest in the Pacific Ocean at approximately 13 miles per hour.

"I have never, in all my years of following tropical cyclones, seen a storm this intense here in the Pacific,"

[link to www.latinospost.com]

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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945.

The battle has been referred to as the "Typhoon of Steel" in English, and tetsu no ame ("iron rain") or kou no kaze ("steel wind") in Japanese. The nicknames refer to the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of kamikaze attacks from the Japanese defenders, and to the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island.

The battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Japan lost over 100,000 soldiers, who were either killed, captured or committed suicide, and the Allies suffered more than 65,000 casualties of all kinds.

Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender just weeks after the end of the fighting at Okinawa.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
 
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