Typhoon Roke, the 15th named storm of the 2011 Northwest Pacific typhoon season, made landfall near Japan’s Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture at 2:00 pm local time (05:00 UTC) on September 21. Maximum sustained winds at landfall were 180 km/h, making Roke a strong Category 2 storm.
Note that this is the same range announced for Typhoon Talas on September 7th. Despite the similarity in estimated losses, however, Roke—primarily a wind event—was very unlike Talas—which was primarily a flood event—from a meteorological perspective.