Winds batter Japan as typhoon Trami heads towards Tokyo


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Tokyo: A powerful typhoon was heading towards Tokyo on Monday morning after battering western Japan with heavy rain and strong winds, causing power outages and forcing evacuations.


A NASA satellite image of Typhoon Trami.

A NASA satellite image of Typhoon Trami.


Photo: NASA Earth Observatory via AP

Typhoon Trami lost some strength after making landfall near Tanabe City, 450 kilometres south-west of Tokyo, earlier in the evening, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to downgrade it to a “strong” typhoon from an “extremely strong” one.


Kansai International Airport in Osaka, western Japan, which was heavily flooded by a typhoon in early September, said it closed its runways overnight. The airport only fully reopened on September 21 following previous storms.


People battle strong winds in Nagoya, central Japan, on Sunday.

People battle strong winds in Nagoya, central Japan, on Sunday.


Photo: AP

Airlines cancelled more than 1200 flights, public broadcaster NHK said. And most local trains and bullet trains in central and western areas suspended operations on Sunday, operators West Japan Railway and Central Japan Railway said.


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