New Year holiday exodus peaks in Japan

The exodus of people spending the New Year's holidays overseas and outside the Tokyo metropolitan area peaked in Japan on Saturday, filling up seats on bullet trains and congesting roads.As a wide area of the country is gripped by cold weather, the Japan Meteorological Agency also alerted the public to beware of heavy snow and possible disruptions of transportation systems from northern to western Japan, especially along the coast of the Sea of Japan.On Saturday alone, more than 80,000 people are expected to leave the country -- 55,200 from Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo,…READ FULL ARTICLE