Tokyo, 3 Apr ( EFE).-Japan is today maintained on alert by a storm of wind and rain which has led to cancel some 400 flights domestic, many of them in the Airport Haneda tokiota, and to reduce rail services in part of the country.
The airline Japan Airlines has canceled at least 209 flights with arrival or departure from Haneda, while All Nippon Airways has suspended 83 in Haneda, Osaka (Center) and Fukuoka (South) and several smaller companies have cancelled other 118 flights, reported the public television NHK.
In addition, the Japan Rail East railway company has reduced its services in the metropolitan area of Tokyo and the frequency of its trains bullet in two of its main lines in the East of the country.
According to the Nippon Meteorological Agency, the archipelago are affected today by a storm caused by a trough of low pressure with winds and rains that Tokyo could surpass the 100 kilometres per hour.
In some parts of the Southwest and West of the country have already registered winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour, which in Western Toyama province have come to dump five trucks whose drivers have been unscathed, said NHK.
The alert remains in virtually all coastal provinces of Japan, where also was warned of waves up to ten metres on the West Coast and between six and eight feet in the Pacific.
In Tokyo numerous companies, including Fujitsu, Nissan or Mitsubishi, today cut their working hours and advised their employees to return to their homes as soon as possible to avoid the effects of the storm on the transport, according to NHK.
In many parts of the capital also have withdrawn by preventing the ornaments placed these days in the open air on the occasion of the “sakura”, the time of cherry blossom, which in Japan is celebrated with festive concentrations under the trees.
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, expected that the storm hits in the Kanto region, where Tokyo is between 1800 and 2100 local time (09.00 and 12.00 GMT). EFE
