Safety concerns have arisen since Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) withdrew personnel from most of the station platforms for Shinkansen bullet trains to improve business efficiency and profitability.
In this series, The Asahi Shimbun traces the impact on children of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Their stories are told through interviews with their families, and from the memoirs of survivors and records compiled by Hiroshima city. The photos were provided by the bereaved families. Some of the images were colorized using artificial intelligence technology with the help of Hiroshi Ishikawa, professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, whose team developed the technology.
Trains in Japan tend to be both crowded and sturdily built, so should you find yourself standing and hanging onto a strap, you might find yourself impressed at how stable the bar the strap is attached to is. Sometimes that admiration can turn into curiosity, and you find yourself thinking…
Despite various unresolved problems, celebratory events were held Sept. 23 to mark the opening of the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line, the shortest bullet train line in Japan.
Ballooning costs, inconvenient access and a local feud are clouding the future of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line’s Nishi-Kyushu route that will partially open on Sept. 23.