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Japan: Shinkansen Services Halted After Two Linked Cars Disconnected

Tohoku Shinkansen services were suspended for hours after two linked trains uncoupled between Furukawa and Sendai stations in Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan on Thursday, September 19. JR East halted all bullet train services between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in Aomori Prefecture for inspection. This video shows a bullet train stopped in Osaki City, about 8 kilometers south of Furukawa station. There is no injuries reported among the some 320 people aboard.

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Canary Islands Sees Surge Of Migrant Arrivals - Spain

Several migrants are attended by the Emergency Services at the Arguineguín Pier, August 28, 2024, in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Salvamento Marítimo has rescued a drifting cayuco with about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, including a woman in serious condition, when they were sailing about 320 nautical miles (about 590 kilometers) south of the island of Gran Canaria and would have left two days ago from Nouachotk (Mauritania). Photo by Europa Press Canarias/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Long-nosed bullet train 'debuts' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The E5-type new ''shinkansen'' bullet train pulls in at JR Tokyo Station for a test run Dec. 9, 2009. East Japan Railway Co. will start to operate the train which can run at 320 kilometers per hour around March 2011.

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Long-nosed bullet train 'debuts' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The E5-type new ''shinkansen'' bullet train pulls in at JR Tokyo Station for a test run Dec. 9, 2009. East Japan Railway Co. will start to operate the train which can run at 320 kilometers per hour around March 2011.

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. displays for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17 new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan.

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows seats in ordinary train cars (L) and those in green cars in new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. East Japan Railway Co. displayed the new cars for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17.

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the driver's area in new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. East Japan Railway Co. displayed the new cars for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17.

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. displays for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17 new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan.

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Extended Tohoku Shinkansen line to feature super deluxe cabins

TOKYO, Japan - An artist's impression of a super deluxe ''Green Car'' cabin of a new shinkansen super-express train that East Japan Railway Co. plans to introduce on the extended Tohoku Shinkansen line by the end of fiscal 2010. According to JR East, the super deluxe ''Green Car'' will seat up to 18 passengers and will boast the same level of comfort as a first-class cabin on an airliner. The new Tohoku Shinkansen line, to be extended to Shin-Aomori station in Aomori Prefecture, will allow a maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour when in commercial operation.

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25 injured in 45-vehicle pileup

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a 45-vehicle pileup on a snow-covered section of the Tohoku Expressway in northeastern Japan on Dec. 12, in which at least 25 people were injured. The pileup in Sambongi, 320 kilometers north of Tokyo, started when a truck skidded in the snow.

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Toyota unveils Lexus supercar's specifications

NAGOYA, Japan - The Lexus LF-A concept supercar unveiled by Toyota Motor Corp. at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 7. The 500-horsepower, 5-liter, V10-engine supercar is designed to provide a maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour, making it a match for European supercars, Toyota says. (Kyodo)

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. displays for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17 new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Niigata residents get iodine pills to prepare for nuclear mishap

Residents of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, receive potassium iodine pills on Sept. 17, 2015, that will mitigate the risk of thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear disaster. Iodine pills were distributed to 320 residents on the first day out of some 20,000 people living within 5 kilometers of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows seats in ordinary train cars (L) and those in green cars in new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. East Japan Railway Co. displayed the new cars for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17. (Kyodo)

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the driver's area in new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. East Japan Railway Co. displayed the new cars for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17. (Kyodo)

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JR East puts new Shinkansen cars on press viewing

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. displays for press viewing in Miyagi Prefecture on June 17 new bullet train cars scheduled to run on the Tohoku Shinkansen line at the end of fiscal 2010 at 320 kilometers an hour, the fastest in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Extended Tohoku Shinkansen line to feature super deluxe cabins

TOKYO, Japan - An artist's impression of a super deluxe ''Green Car'' cabin of a new shinkansen super-express train that East Japan Railway Co. plans to introduce on the extended Tohoku Shinkansen line by the end of fiscal 2010. According to JR East, the super deluxe ''Green Car'' will seat up to 18 passengers and will boast the same level of comfort as a first-class cabin on an airliner. The new Tohoku Shinkansen line, to be extended to Shin-Aomori station in Aomori Prefecture, will allow a maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour when in commercial operation. (Kyodo)

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Long-nosed bullet train 'debuts' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The E5-type new ''shinkansen'' bullet train pulls in at JR Tokyo Station for a test run Dec. 9, 2009. East Japan Railway Co. will start to operate the train which can run at 320 kilometers per hour around March 2011. (Kyodo)

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Long-nosed bullet train 'debuts' in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The E5-type new ''shinkansen'' bullet train pulls in at JR Tokyo Station for a test run Dec. 9, 2009. East Japan Railway Co. will start to operate the train which can run at 320 kilometers per hour around March 2011. (Kyodo)

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25 injured in 45-vehicle pileup

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a 45-vehicle pileup on a snow-covered section of the Tohoku Expressway in northeastern Japan on Dec. 12, in which at least 25 people were injured. The pileup in Sambongi, 320 kilometers north of Tokyo, started when a truck skidded in the snow.