Flights cancelled as typhoon skirts southern Japan
Flights were cancelled, bullet trains partially suspended and factories shuttered on Tuesday as Typhoon Khanun headed past Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, bringing heavy rain. The typhoon last week reportedly killed at least two people, injured more than 100 and cut off power for several hundred thousand people in the southern Okinawa region before barrelling towards Taiwan. The weather system then swung back to the Okinawa area and on Wednesday was due to roar along the western coast of Kyushu towards South Korea, according to forecasters. Japan Airlines on Tuesday cancelled 132 flights, which affected some 8,390 people, a spokeswoman told AFP. ANA also scrapped flights between Kagoshima in southern Kyushu and Tokyo.<br/>
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Flights cancelled as typhoon skirts southern Japan
Flights were cancelled, bullet trains partially suspended and factories shuttered on Tuesday as Typhoon Khanun headed past Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu, bringing heavy rain. The typhoon last week reportedly killed at least two people, injured more than 100 and cut off power for several hundred thousand people in the southern Okinawa region before barrelling towards Taiwan. The weather system then swung back to the Okinawa area and on Wednesday was due to roar along the western coast of Kyushu towards South Korea, according to forecasters. Japan Airlines on Tuesday cancelled 132 flights, which affected some 8,390 people, a spokeswoman told AFP. ANA also scrapped flights between Kagoshima in southern Kyushu and Tokyo.<br/>
