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Japanese Troops Rush to Areas Hit Hard by Typhoon

Reuters

   TOKYO - Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers
   Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the
   worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history, which killed
   23people and briefly paralyzed Tokyo.

   There were also 16 people missing, public broadcaster NHK said, as
   Typhoon Hagibis left vast swaths of low-lying land in central and
   eastern Japan inundated and cut power to almost half a million homes.

   Landing restrictions at Tokyo's Narita and Haneda airports were lifted,
   but more than 800 flights were canceled for the day, NHK said, as were
   some Shinkansen bullet train services to the worst-hit areas.

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