TOKYO: A powerful typhoon was closing in Japan on Tuesday, on a path that will take it toward the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Typhoon Wipha, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour near its center, was in the Pacific south of Japan early Tuesday and moving north at 20 kilometers per hour.

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