Typhoon Neoguri Sweeps through Easter Japan Wednesday July 09,2014

The storm swept through eastern Japan after 500,000 people were told to evacuate and is one of the strongest ever to hit the country during summer.

The storm - whose name means 'raccoon dog' in Korean - also threatened flooding in remote regions of Japan which has halted its heavy industries.

 It has been downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall but still left a trail of devastation in its wake, including in Nagiso, central Japan (left, top right and bottom right), which saw a landslide which left a 12-year-old boy dead

The storm is now heading for capital Tokyo and other major cities including Osaka - as well as Fukushima, which played host to a nuclear power plant disaster three years ago.

Two to four typhoons make landfall in Japan each year, but this storm is one of the largest ever to hit Japan during the summer, when they are extremely rare.