Tropical storm Jangmi injures 15, leaves thousands without power

Travel disruption: A man looking at a flight status board at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, showing a cancelled flight to Okinawa after Jangmi shut down the airport there as it moved towards mainland Japan. — AFP

A severe tropical storm has battered southwestern Japan, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, grounding hundreds of flights and injuring 15 people.

The Japan Meteorological Agen­cy warned of high waves, landslides and flooding as storm Jangmi – which was downgraded from a typhoon – rumbles northwards after bearing down on the subtropical island of Okinawa on Monday.