Tropical storm Lan soaks Japan's main island

Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2023

A month's worth of rain drenched parts of Japan's main island Honshu on Tuesday as a tropical storm hit, swelling rivers and triggering landslide warnings. Downgraded from a typhoon, Lan roared in from the Pacific at around 5 am (2000 GMT), soaking and buffeting with strong winds the commercial hubs of Osaka and Kobe as it rumbled northwards. "Total rainfall has already exceeded the norm