The seventeenth tropical cyclone and second super typhoon of the moderately active 1995 Pacific typhoon season, Oscar formed as a tropical depression a few hundred miles east-northeast of Guam.

Tracking northwestwards and intensifying over water, Oscar attained typhoon strength on September 14.

Oscar recurved northeastwards two days later, skirted past Honshū on September 17 and started weakening.

Six people were reported missing and about 600 houses were damaged by high winds and flood water.

Storm and flood warnings were issued across most of Japan's eastern coastal and central areas.

[3] It was one of the most powerful typhoons to hit Japan since World War II, dealing the east coast a glancing blow before veering out to sea.