Powerful typhoon kills 5 in Japan and South Korea

Powerful typhoon Dianmu tore through South Korea and western Japan on Monday, lashing a wide area with strong winds and heavy rains, killing at least five people.
Dianmu, meaning "Mother of Lightning" in Chinese, killed at least two people when it slammed into the central provinces of South Korea, and three died in Japan over the weekend.
Transport was snarled in Japan, thousands of households temporarily lost power, several refineries halted shipments and at least 1,300 people were told to evacuate.
In South Korea, four people went missing, 168 houses were evacuated and 26,811 homes lost power for hours, the National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement. Rice fields across 8,411 hectares (20,784 acres) were inundated.
The typhoon hit land at Cape Muroto on Shikoku island, about 500 km (310 miles) west of Tokyo, at about 0040 GMT, Japan's meteorological agency said. Gusts of up to 180 kph (112 mph) were recorded in Shikoku early on Monday, it said. Then it headed north-east, tearing through parts of the south and west before heading out to the Sea of Japan.
By 1000 GMT, the typhoon was estimated to be 70 km (43 miles) north of Wajima, a city about 300 km (186 miles) north-west of Tokyo.
It was moving north-north-east at a speed of 70 kph (43 mph), packing winds of up to 90 kph (56 mph) near the centre. The meteorological agency said it was expected to continue heading north-east and approach Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Tuesday.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the death toll stood at three in the province of North Chungchong, after two farmers drowned and a man was buried by a landslide. Two university students were found dead in Japan on Sunday after high waves swept them off a beach, and a windsurfer died on Saturday just off the southern island of Okinawa.
Japanese news agency Kyodo said three people were missing and more than 100 people injured by the typhoon and about 1,300 people in central Japan were told to evacuate.
At least eight refineries had halted crude oil unloading and product shipment by sea, including Nippon Oil Corp's 340,000 bpd Negishi refinery near Tokyo.
Many schools were closed in western and southern Japan, Kyodo said, adding that power outages hit about 150,000 households, but electricity was later restored.
Media reports said more than 200 flights were cancelled, as were a broad western swathe of train and ferry services, including some Shinkansen "bullet train" services.