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.
An independent judicial panel has decided prosecutors' earlier decision not to indict officials at an immigration center in Nagoya over the 2021 death of a Sri Lankan detainee is unjust, paving the way for reinvestigation of the case, it says.
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A Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train that derailed in Miyagi Prefecture during the powerful earthquake that struck off Japan’s northeast coast Wednesday night may have been knocked from the rails by the second jolt of the quake, according to the transport safety board.
Yoichi Kanayama, a professor at the University of Toyama on railway engineering. In response to a recent knife and arson attack on a Keio Line train, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has compiled a number of measures to strengthen railway security, including the installation of on-board security cameras…