Aerial photography and drone footage have shown the apocalyptic scenes left in the cyclone's wake: Fields of crops were ruined, rising floodwaters tore bridges off their moorings, mudslides smashed roads and whole villages were swept away.
Ten years of Soviet attacks had smashed roads, schools and houses, and poisoned wells, irrigation systems and farmland.
Before the fatal accident on the M6, a man in his mid-20s suffered multiple injuries and his vehicle was torn into three pieces after his car smashed into road signs and a bridge.
It was a bold move: not even the LDP's Junichiro Koizumi, the reformist and charismatic prime minister from 2001-06, had managed to smash the road tribe.
Local reports suggest the car veered off a bridge, smashed into a road barrier and plunged into the water.
"Sometimes hundreds of those crabs get smashed on the road" when they're migrating for reproduction, he added.
Local reports suggest they died after the car veered off a bridge, smashed into a road barrier and plunged into the water.
Passengers started screaming as the plane slid down the runway, crossed a road, smashed through a perimeter fence and then crashed into a sandy embankment, according to the passengers' accounts.
Two weeks ago, an employee of Aston Martin was delivering Bond's DBS sports car to the set when the car skidded off the road, smashed through a guardrail and into the lake.
A report on the Asahi television network quoted a survivor as saying that almost all of those on board the bus had been asleep when the bus dramatically swerved onto the wrong side of the road, smashed through a guard rail and fell several metres down a mountainside.
