Thousands of travellers were forced to spend the night inside Tokyo's Narita International Airport after record-breaking rainfall paralysed transport links across eastern Japan, turning one of the country's busiest travel hubs into a makeshift shelter during a deadly flood emergency.
At least four people were killed after torrential rain battered Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, triggering severe flooding, landslide warnings and widespread power outages. The disruption left around 7,000 passengers stranded overnight at Narita Airport as train services were suspended and major roads became impassable.
