Smoking rooms inside Japan's shinkansen bullet train cars will completely disappear next spring, as more railway operators adhere to the country's growing health consciousness and decline in smoking habits.
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Ukraine is eagerly looking to Japan’s super-safe Shinkansen system to bolster the war-torn nation’s recovery from the devastation of the Russian invasion.
Services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines were halted and delayed early on Aug. 17 as cancellations the previous day caused by heavy rain affected crew and train car preparations.
Slow-moving Typhoon Lan made landfall on the Kii Peninsula in western Japan on Tuesday, the weather agency said, disrupting air and train services and causing havoc for travelers returning from their summer holidays. The agency has warned of heavy rains in eastern, central and western Japan and urged residents to…