A powerful typhoon has lashed south-western Japan with heavy rain and strong winds, leaving one person dead and at least 34 others injured, paralysing traffic and cutting power to thousands of homes.

Racing in Japan this weekend has been cancelled due to an outbreak of equine flu.

A SIREN wailed and a bronze bell rang as Nagasaki marked the moment 60 years ago when an American plane dropped a plutonium bomb, killing 80,000 people and sealing Japan’s Second World War defeat.

A siren wailed and a bronze bell rang as Nagasaki marked the moment 60 years ago when an American plane appeared in its skies and dropped the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb, killing 80,000 people and sealing Japan’s Second World War defeat.