Typhoon leaves 5 dead in Japan

Television broadcast pictures of people bailing muddy water out of homes and bulldozers clearing mud as the record ninth typhoon to make landfall in Japan this year, faded into a cyclone in the Pacific.

The storm triggered landslides and flooding in areas already waterlogged by a series of deadly typhoons. Typhoon Ma-on, whose name means "horse saddle" in Cantonese, followed two weeks after Typhoon Meari, which killed 27.

Rail workers struggled to return train and subway services to normal after heavy rain brought them to a halt.

Flights were largely back to normal at Tokyo's Narita Airport, which was packed with would-be passengers, thousands of whom had spent the night there after their flights were cancelled the previous day, public broadcaster NHK said.

Sewerage workers were pumping water out of a flooded underground pipeline, in which one of their colleagues had gone missing the previous day, Tokyo police said.