Ravaged by Typhoon Hagibis, Japan perhaps got the huge lift it needed when its rugby team beat Scotland 28-21 on home soil to reach a first ever World Cup quarterfinal.
The team's victory came hours after Japan's worst storm in decades battered much of the country with hurricane like winds and incessant, overpowering rain, killing dozens of people.
Residents had to be airlifted from homes, there was considerable flooding -- especially in and around Tokyo -- and flights were canceled from the capital's two main airports of Narita and Haneda.
With three games already canceled this weekend because of the storm -- downgraded to a tropical depression Sunday -- and its aftereffects, doubts surrounded the host's clash with Scotland in Yokohama, near Tokyo.
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