TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon buffeted Tokyo with strong winds and rain Wednesday, halting trains and stranding tens of thousands of commuters as it barreled toward the tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast with its crippled nuclear plant.

Police and local media reported that six people were dead or missing after being swept away by rivers swollen with rains from Typhoon Roke. Nearly 260,000 households in central Japan were without electricity, and authorities called for more than a million people to be evacuated in central and eastern Japan.

The storm, packing sustained winds of up to 90 mph (144 kph), made landfall in the afternoon near the city of Hamamatsu, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of Tokyo. The center of the fast-moving storm was passing just north of the capital early Wednesday evening and was expected to head toward the northeastern region of Tohoku devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake.

With commuter trains in the capital suspended, tens of thousands of commuters trying to rush home were stuck at stations across the sprawling city. Fire department officials reported three people were injured in Tokyo. In the trendy shopping district of Shibuya, winds knocked over a tree onto a sidewalk, but no one was hurt.

Television footage showed pedestrians struggling to walk straight in powerful winds that made umbrellas useless.

Typhoon Roke's projected course was to take it near the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where a small amount of radiation is still leaking after three of its reactors melted down when the tsunami cut off power to the plant and its back-up generators.

Takeo Iwamoto, spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operates the plant, said the cooling system for the reactors, crucial to keeping them under control, will not be endangered by the typhoon.

He said some construction work around the plant was canceled and utmost efforts were under way to prevent leaks of radioactive water and other material from the typhoon.

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said just over one million people have been ordered or advised to evacuate across the country due to fear of flooding or mudslides triggered by the typhoon.

The city of Nagoya temporarily called off an evacuation warning for 880,000 people when swelling in a major river subsided, but officials said the warning could be reissued if conditions warranted.

Heavy rains caused floods and road damage in dozens of locations in Nagoya and several other cities, the Aichi prefectural (state) government said. Parts of Japan's central city of Nagoya, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) west of Tokyo, were flooded near swollen rivers where rescue workers helped residents evacuate in rubber boats.

Police in nearby Gifu prefecture said a 9-year-old boy and an 84-year-old man were missing after apparently falling into swollen rivers.

More than 200 domestic flights were canceled and some bullet train services were suspended.

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's No. 1 automaker, which is headquartered in Toyota city in Aichi, was shutting plants as a precaution.

Machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries told workers to stay home at its five plants and an office in the Nagoya area, company spokesman Hideo Ikuno said.

Nissan Motor Co. spokesman Chris Keeffe said workers at its Yokohama headquarters and nearby technical facilities were being told to go home early for safety reasons, and two plants were not operating.

A typhoon that slammed Japan earlier this month left about 90 people dead or missing.

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AP writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.

2011 is year of extreme high and low.

Which broker you use ? What is the symbol ? Is it EWM?

Bro Scythe... i scared touching penny stock... is your penny stock recommendation safe?

thanks bro.

Do you think I should get historical data from chart nexus or just use tradesignum? do u have any other recommendation?

ok bro

Siren sounded?

1350 here we come

You look happy. So you gonna shopping today?

Unfortunately, that is true also when it goes up. Then next day it reverse down further. Its downtrend. So reverse reverse also it goes down. Its bearish market lol.

cheers to you too:

Bearish also for this CPTEH:

someone is trying to stabilize the price?

soon soon...

I have 2 CDS account. One in OSK. One in HLE. Can I buy and sell this share with my two account to make the share price move?

wah, if really true, good la.. .I still hold this share...

if it has big gap, then I have push it down to create panic selling and then I can buy back the share...

hahaha, I can only dreaming to own that much shares... i'm ikan bilis only...

KLCI now 1407......

wah, I joking only but you really do it ar? I tot stock price manipulation is illegal ?

but every share react differently. Should we monitor 200SMA or 200EMA to see if we should sell all our shares ?

Sometimes I wonder if this downtrend is double dip recession from 2008/2009 recession. 2010 and 2011 is just fake recovery.

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Added on September 22, 2011, 9:37 amHSI -566.63 -3.01%

This post has been edited by gogo2: Sep 22 2011, 09:37 AM

1350 is achievable end of this week or next.