KASUKABE, Japan >> Just after 5 a.m. on Aug. 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber, called “the cathedral,” ...

Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the “cathedral” just north of Tokyo.

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Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the "cathedral" just north of Tokyo ... Shanshan lashed southwest Japan, 600 km (373 miles) away.