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China Daily | Updated: 2015-08-25 07:45
Japan
Typhoon Goni batters Okinawa
Typhoon Goni lashed the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa with heavy rains and winds on Monday, as the death toll rose to 19 in the northern Philippines. Wind gusts of 256 kph, a local record, flipped over cars and toppled utility poles overnight on the remote Japanese island of Ishigaki, near Taiwan, Japanese media reported.
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