The death toll from Japan's worst typhoon in a quarter century rose to 77 with 14 people still missing, as the devastation forced the government to consider emergency funds and new safety measures. Typhoon Tokage, which ripped through Japan on Wednesday, also injured nearly 300 people, police said. More than 21,000 houses were flooded and 382 homes were destroyed or damaged under the force of hundreds of landslides. Japan has suffered one trillion yen (USD 9.3 B) in damage from the storm season in which record 10 typhoons hit the country, the government said.

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