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09/21/2011 12:46 pm ET A man drives a car on a flooded street in Kihocho, Japan, on Sept. 21. Powerful typhoon Roke, packing winds of up to 134 mph, was expected to make landfall along Japan's southeast coast around midday and then cut a path northeast through Tokyo and into the northeastern Tohoku region, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake.