Powerful typhoon kills 3 in Tokyo area, strands thousands at Narita

TOKYO - At least three people have died and more than 50 were injured as a powerful typhoon battered the Tokyo metropolitan area, causing transportation outages that affected nearly 3 million commuters and left thousands stranded at Narita airport east of the capital.East Japan Railway Co. suspended all train lines in the metropolitan and surrounding areas before Typhoon Faxai made landfall near the city of Chiba shortly before 5 a.m. as one of the strongest typhoons known to have hit the Kanto region of eastern Japan.At Narita airport, an international gateway to Japan, about 14,000 peopl…READ FULL ARTICLE