in case you are curious, the "decade" that they keep mentioning in the articles since there has been a pacific typhoon this large is most likely referring to super typhoon Paka which we took a pretty direct hit from on Guam in '97. there were unnoficial reports of 286 mph winds, but again all the instrumentation ended up in the ocean before any official readings could be obtained.
At Camp Zama, Japan, we got slammed by a typhoon in the late 60s. We were told that the winds atop Mt. Fuji reached 207MPH. It really did a number on the village in which we were living.