These personal belongings including a bag, top left, and a wristwatch, seen here on Nov. 4 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, were carried by Yuri Ishikawa when she was killed in an expressway tunnel collapse in 2012. The mementos, except the keys, will be put on display at a training facility of Central Nippon Expressway Co. (Shoko Tamaki)
YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture Charred work-related documents dated Dec. 2, 2012, remain stuck fast to a young woman s bag.
The stopped hands of her watch tell the time of 9:30 for eternity, about one and a half hours after the tragedy that took her life and eight others.
The mementos will offer future generations of Central Nippon Expressway Co. (NEXCO Central) officials and workers a sobering lesson from the deadly expressway tunnel collapse.