73,000 households still without power in Chiba 1 week after typhoon

About 73,000 households were still without power in Chiba Prefecture on Monday, a week after Typhoon Faxai caused widespread blackouts across the region near Tokyo.Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has said electricity could be restored to affected areas in the prefecture by Sept. 27, saying the outage has been prolonged as the damage from the storm was worse than expected.About 935,000 households in Chiba and six other prefectures were without power at its peak and the typhoon damaged more than 2,800 homes in the prefecture.On Monday, heavy rain fell in the southern part of the Bo…READ FULL ARTICLE