A concealed object is detected under the jacket of an individual. (Provided by Cornes Technologies Ltd.)
The transport ministry is pushing plans to give railway personnel the authority to inspect the belongings of bullet train passengers, a move intended to prevent possible terrorist acts during the Tokyo Olympics.
Ministry officials are seeking to revise a ministerial order so the new security measures can start on July 1. The Summer Games are scheduled to start later that month.
The revision plan stems in part from an incident in June 2018, when a man on a Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train stabbed three passengers, one fatally.
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
A stroll through Takeshita-dori reveals big, bulbous lettering of a variety of colors, painted on the shutters of one shop after another
Machida high school girl who died in apparent suicide wanted ‘relief’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on May 11, 2021
TOKYO (TR) – A high school girl living in Machida City was hit and killed by a train at a railway crossing on Sunday, police have revealed.
The case is being treated as a suicide, reports the
Yomiuri Shimbun (May 10).
A witness said that the girl, 16, moved beyond the barricade at the crossing in the Morino area and into the path of a JR Yokohama Line train at around 6:40 p.m.
Evening commuters at Oimachi Station in Tokyo on the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line on May 6 (Toshiyuki Hayashi)
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) scrapped its reduced, anti-virus schedule in the Tokyo area on May 7 after commuters overcrowded the fewer trains available, increasing the risk of infection.
JR East, complying with requests from the central and Tokyo metropolitan governments, announced plans to curtail train services by 20 percent from regular levels on three days April 30, May 6 and 7.
The state of emergency over the novel coronavirus started on April 25 in Tokyo mainly to discourage people from going out during the Golden Week holidays.
But passenger numbers did not go down as anticipated.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach (on a screen) delivers an opening speech while Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto, right, and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, left screen, listen during a five-party meeting of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Pool Photo via AP)
The verb nudge means to elbow someone gently to coax the person into modifying their behavior, rather than by ordering or threatening the person with a fine.
For example, when urging people to evacuate during a disaster, you tell them, If you go to the evacuation center now, you ll be able to secure your sleeping space.