Powerful storm lashes Japan, snarls holiday travel


A POWERFUL tropical storm lashed Japan today, bringing strong winds and torrential rain that injured at least 14 people, prompted warnings of landslides and flooding, and sparked evacuation advisories and travel chaos at a peak holiday period.

Severe Tropical Storm Krosa – one notch below a typhoon – was churning slowly through southwestern parts of Japan, packing wind gusts of up to 144kph.


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