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Japan's latest typhoon headed toward automaking region

Tokyo typhoon
Much of Tokyo was already covered in rain and fog on Monday. (BLOOMBERG)
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Bloomberg
August 14, 2023 08:36 AM

Japan is preparing for its second typhoon in a week as Typhoon Lan is forecast to make landfall Tuesday in central Japan near Osaka, the country’s second largest metropolitan area. It’s expected to take a path across the center of the country’s main island — a heavy industrial region with major automobile factories — before turning north toward Hokkaido.

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