AKIPRESS.COM - A powerful typhoon is on track to hit the Tokyo metropolitan area Monday after making landfall in central Japan earlier in the day, bringing heavy rain and strong winds across wide areas of the country, leaving at least one dead and three missing, Kyodo News reports.

Typhoon Phanfone moved inland from the Pacific near Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture shortly after 8 a.m. and is expected to head northeast, hitting Tokyo, before traveling off Japan's northern Pacific coast in the early evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Three U.S. servicepersons were swept away by high waves in Okinawa. One was later confirmed dead while the other two are missing, according to local police. A 21-year-old man from Tokyo also went missing while surfing at Shonan beach in Kanagawa Prefecture. Ten other people were reported to be injured.