A 39-year-old man who pushed a complete stranger off a station platform in Tokyo into the path of an oncoming train was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Typhoon Yun-yeung, which had been expected to make landfall in central Japan, lost its strength and will weaken into a tropical depression, the weather agency says..
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Typhoon No. 13 is not expected to make landfall in Honshu as it will turn into a tropical cyclone on Sept. 8, but heavy rain and thunder were still likely in the Tokai, Kanto-Koshin and Tohoku regions through the following day.
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced it will suspend some services on its network from the morning of Sept. 8 due to heavy rain brought by approaching Typhoon No. 13.