Typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan early Tuesday, bringing violent gusts and downpours that have already caused rivers to surge and prompted landslide warnings. Lan crossed the coast of the main island of Honshu shortly before 5 am (2100 GMT) in Wakayama prefecture, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) west of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The system was set to spend all of Tuesday sweeping over the region, which includes the commercial hubs of […]