MTSAT image of Tropical Storm Ma-on southeast of Japan on July 20, 2011. Image by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).

The worst of heavy rain and strong wind was over southern Japan on Wednesday as the center of Tropical Storm Ma-on pulled back out to sea.

However, the storm left at least one person dead and dozens more injured in its aftermath on Wednesday, according to the AFP.

A centuries-old castle in Kyoto was damaged, the AFP reported.

Wednesday morning, ET, the center of Tropical Storm Ma-on lay less than 200 miles southwest of Tokyo, with movement towards the east-southeast. The storm still held highest sustained winds of 60 to 65 mph.

Ma-on is forecast to continue pulling away from the Japan mainland, then it will hook northeastward well out to sea beginning Thursday night or Friday.

The storm’s damaging winds and heaviest rain stayed well south and west of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was damaged severely during the March 11 great quake and devastating tsunami. Soaking rain did fall in the area, however, and gusty winds off shore brought high waves to the site.

Ma-on first landed on southern Shikoku, in southwestern Japan, on Tuesday evening, local time, and later crossed the Kii Peninsula of southernmost Honshu. These areas suffered the worst of Ma-on’s wind as well as rain, which exceeded 12 inches over hills in the area.

The one reported death took place on Shikoku, according to AFP.

After Ma-on’s second landfall, the storm’s center tracked back over water south of Nagoya.