I went through no less than five of these things last year - every other week one was lashing the south part of Japan where I was lving at that time. I was even en route to a meeting in Hiroshima in a car during one of them, so I guess I got used blowing through.
Typhoons typically are not as strong as hurricanes, but they bring a lot of rain with them. Depending on the typhoon, you will either have a really windy storm, or a full-on pulverizer. Flooding is not uncommon. There is very little you can do other than follow the instructions locally, though - if they tell you to escape to safer ground, do so. If you live on the slope of a muddy hill, go to the shopping mall.
(oh, and if you have a clump of mountains protecting you, it tends to slow them right down - the area where my wife is from is surrounded by them and rarely gets affected by typhoons)
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