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Typhoon Lan made landfall early Monday morning, Oct. 23, in southeastern Japan, where a combination of flooding rain, high winds and pounding surf battered the country.

Lan transitioned to an extratropical storm – one featuring warm and cold fronts typical of the mid-latitudes – while it tracked through southern Japan. This caused the size of Lan's wind field to expand, bringing high winds across much of Honshu, Shikoku and eastern Kyushu.

Winds gusted up to 78 mph at Miyake-Jima Airport, 76 mph in Tokyo, 71 mph in Yokosuka, 71 mph in Komatsu and 64 mph in Osaka.

Shingu, in Wakayama Prefecture in southern Japan, recorded more than two feet of rainfall from Friday morning, Oct. 20, into early Monday morning, Oct. 23.

Battering waves and coastal flooding affected the Pacific coasts of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, as well.

The center of Typhoon Lan made landfall just south of Tokyo early Monday morning, local time, Oct. 23 (Japan is 13 hours ahead of U.S. eastern daylight time).

Before that, Lan brushed Okinawa on Saturday, Oct. 21. Winds gusted to 50 mph at Naha Airport and up to 47 mph at Kadena Air Base. Gusts over 55 mph were also clocked in the Amami Islands, to the northeast of Okinawa.

Hurricane reconnaissance found surface sustained winds of 155 mph on Saturday, Oct. 21, during the first of its kind research flight in the western Pacific Ocean.

While the Atlantic Basin has seen one of its most active hurricane seasons on record , the western Pacific Basin, prior to Lan, had been in a relative slumber.

Through Oct. 16, roughly only half of the average activity – number, intensity, longevity – of tropical cyclones had occurred in the year-to-date in the western Pacific Basin, according to data compiled by Dr. Phil Klotzbach, tropical scientist at Colorado State University.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter .