PHOTO of the DAY (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

A doll is seen Sept. 6 amidst ruins left in the trail of Typhoon Talas in a residential area of the Nojiri district of Totsukawa, Nara Prefecture, where one person was found dead and seven are still missing. The typhoon, the 12th for the year, has as of present left 50 dead and over 55 missing in 12 prefectures across the country. Talas became the deadliest typhoon over the past 22 years, surpassing the causalities and level of destruction of the Typhoon Tokage, which left a total of 98 people dead or missing in October 2004. (Mainichi)


Bonus Photos


The typhoon packed gusts of up to 108 kilometers per hour as it cut across Shikoku and Honshu.



People with tanks and bottles in hand wait in line for water from a water supply truck in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2011. Many areas had their water supplies cut off due to damage from Typhoon No. 12. (Mainichi)


Cars destroyed by the March 11 tsunami are stacked near a pile of debris at Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Almost six months after the tsunami, thousands of destroyed cars still litter coastal towns across northeast Japan.


Ivy spreads across one of Tomioka's deserted streets. This area was abandoned due to being a hot spot for radiation contamination from Fukushima.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Wow

[AsahinaKimi]

5. wow indeed...

To say, this has not been the best year for Japan, would be an understatement.

[Chimichurri]

2. k&r

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Thanks for the K&R

doumo!

[Oceansaway]

3. thanx, my fav. this time is

the 3rd photo...that handsome little dude up front with the water tanks....

[AsahinaKimi]

4. I thought #1 was

particularly haunting. The last photo of an abandoned home hot with Radiation contamination is also
disturbing.

[ceile]

6. Last pic

I was like "oh, what a cute house" then I read the caption. sigh...

[AsahinaKimi]

7. It does seem a lovely

kind of Cottage. Who knows how long before it will be reclaimed. With the contamination, it may fall in ruins before someone lives in it again.