Post-typhoon blackout near Tokyo reaches Day 4 affecting 280,000 homes

Hundreds of thousands of households near Tokyo entered their fourth day without electricity on Thursday amid sweltering heat and no relief in sight, as a utility struggled to recover power systems damaged by Typhoon Faxai.The number of households in Chiba Prefecture affected by the outage remained approximately 280,000 as of 9 p.m., compared with more than 380,000 Wednesday evening, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.The utility had sought to restore power across the prefecture sometime on Wednesday but said it had found power poles and power lines that were more badly d…READ FULL ARTICLE