Typhoon Etau roared over Japan's main island of Honshu, leaving at least eight people dead or missing and 71 others injured while snarling airline and rail traffic, officials said. Four people have been confirmed dead and four others missing on Saturday as the storm system continued moving northeast at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour after slamming onto the smaller island of Shikoku from the Pacific late Friday. The eye of the typhoon, with the maximum velocity of its winds down to 90 kilometers per hour, was located near the city of Yamagata, 300 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, at 6:00 pm, the Meteorological Agency said. Etau was projected to dwindle into a tropical depression and veer out to the Pacific off the northernmost island of Hokkaido early Sunday, the agency said.

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