The eye of Melor is forecast to track across the Japanese island of Honshu, passing north of Tokyo.
BBC: Weather - Melor affects the south of Japan
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The strong winds associated with Typhoon Melor have already left over ten thousand homes without electricity in Okinawa, Amami-Oshima and other southern islands.
BBC: Weather - Melor affects the south of Japan
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Melor is expected to weaken to a tropical storm before moving back out over the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido, where it will become an extra-tropical system over open water later on Thursday.