A powerful typhoon that battered Tokyo overnight with record winds killed two people,
police said Monday, as cancelled trains caused commuter chaos and more than 100 flights were scrapped, leaving thousands stranded at the airport.
Typhoon Faxai, packing winds of up to 207 kilometres (129 miles) per hour, made landfall in Chiba just east of the capital before dawn, after barrelling through Tokyo Bay.
The transport disruptions unleashed by the storm came less than two weeks before the start of the Rugby
World Cup, and delayed the arrival of the
Australian team -- a reminder that Japan's typhoon season could present challenges for organisers.