SENDAI Police plan to investigate a man who accidentally leaked a chemical that burned three passengers and himself and sickened two others on a Tohoku Shinkansen train.
Bon holiday train bookings are up by more than half this year compared with the same period in 2022, as people in Japan travel again following the removal of COVID-19 restrictions.
Some Shinkansen are carrying perishable freight along with passengers, as railway operators and food producers alike expand the use of high-speed trains for urgent goods.
A crippling snowstorm buried many parts of the Hokkaido and Tohoku regions on Feb. 21, paralyzing the local transportation system and causing a multiple vehicle pile-up on a major expressway.