Japan braces for Typhoon Neoguri's 270 km/h winds, 14m waves

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A powerful typhoon forced Japanese authorities to cancel flights and urge more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes on Tuesday as the storm threatened to bring torrential rain and high winds to Japan’s southern islands.