Record rainfall left thousands of travelers stranded at Tokyo's Narita airport, Japan's second-busiest airport behind Haneda, on Friday morning as flooding in the surrounding area disrupted transport.

Record-breaking heavy rain has pounded eastern Japan, flooding roads and homes, paralyzing traffic, and causing power outages near Tokyo.

Unprecedented rainfall battered Japan on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and flooding parts of Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo. Authorities issued the region’s…