TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon lashed Japan today, leaving two dead and dumping torrential rains, damaging homes and flooding parts of the country’s popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where 260,000 people in the city center were ordered to evacuate to shelters.
Typhoon Man-yi, packing wind speeds of 100 mph this evening, was centered over the city of Miyako, about 350 miles north of Tokyo.
Trains in Tokyo were suspended and hundreds of flights were grounded.
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