Financially struggling railway operators say they are at a loss over how to deal with the government’s push to have security cameras installed on new trains, prompted by a series of high-profile assaults on passengers.
Train and bus operators are finding difficulties implementing effective measures to prevent indiscriminate attacks targeting passengers or crew members.
A soccer ball and flowers are offered at the site of a fatal traffic accident in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Feb. 22. The construction fencing was an opaque white when Kairi Okubo, 8, who loved playing soccer, was killed here in February 2020. (Emi Iwata)
Construction sites are taking on a more transparent look in Tokyo in the wake of a traffic accident that claimed the life of a child where the driver’s view was obscured.
Third-grader Kairi Okubo, 8, was struck by a van and killed on a crosswalk at an intersection in Tokyo’s Minato Ward in February last year.