At least 23 people have been killed and 16 more reported missing after a powerful typhoon struck Japan.
Officials said the full extent of the damage was only beginning to emerge because many areas were still underwater.
Typhoon Hagibis, which has been forecast to head out to sea on Sunday evening, has left nearly 425,000 homes without power and swaths of low-lying residential areas inundated by overflowing rivers.
Authorities have lifted rain and flood warnings across Tokyo with stores reopening and trains resuming operations. However, the capital's main airports, Haneda and Narita, have been closed, leaving more than a thousand flights impacted.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government was doing everything to save people's lives and property, with military helicopters pressed into action to airlift stranded residents from homes near the river.
Hagibis, which made landfall on Japan's main island of Honshu on Saturday evening, was followed by 5.7-magnitude earthquake.
Torrential rains brought by a powerful typhoon lashing Japan's Pacific coast have caused landslides that killed two people, with four missing, public broadcaster NHK said on Tuesday, while snapping electricity supply to nearly 50,000 homes.
Thousands of flights across the US were disrupted on Monday, with incoming flights halted for hours at major East Coast airports, before the Federal Aviation Administration resolved a telecommunications problem late in the afternoon.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday he had agreed to a request from Saudi Arabia to provide defensive air-to-air refuelling for a limited time period, a move he described as helping to stabilise the wider region.
MS NOW, CNN and Politico said on Monday they were suing the Trump Administration to protect their First Amendment rights after President Donald Trump's announcement that he would ban the news outlets from the White House's building grounds.
Pakistan's government said on Monday that it launched airstrikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, killing at least 28 militants, with one security official saying two Afghan provinces were targeted.
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