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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

KOMAKI, Japan, April 7 Kyodo - Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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ETC lanes closed at interchange in Tokyo due to system issue

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Fuchu, Tokyo, on April 6, 2025, due to a system problem.

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ETC lanes closed at interchange in Tokyo due to system issue

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Fuchu, Tokyo, on April 6, 2025, due to a system problem.

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Japan: Wildfire Breaks Out In Otsuki, Yamanashi, Burning More Than 80 Hectares 2

A wildfire broke out at Ozawa district in Otsuki city, Yamanashi, on February 26, burning 80 hectares of forest and destroying an empty house as of Friday.

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Japan: Wildfire Breaks Out In Otsuki, Yamanashi, Burning More Than 80 Hectares

A wildfire broke out at Ozawa district in Otsuki city, Yamanashi, on February 26, burning 80 hectares of forest and destroying an empty house as of Friday.

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Golden Week holiday rush in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Chuo Expressway's Tokyo-bound lanes (L) in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, packed with cars on May 6, 2024, the final day of the Golden Week holiday season.

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Summer holiday rush in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Chuo Expressway's outbound lanes in Hachioji, western Tokyo, packed with cars headed to rural holiday destinations on Aug. 11, 2023.

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2011 shows an elevated part of the Metropolitan Expressway running over the Nihombashi bridge in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 24, 1963, shows the Metropolitan Expressway under construction over the Nihombashi bridge in Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

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Golden Week "return rush"

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tokyo-bound lane of the Chuo Expressway jammed with vehicles in Uenohara, Yamanashi Prefecture, on May 6, 2013, the last day of Japan's Golden Week holiday period.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopters shows the Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becoming fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - The Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becomes fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - The Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becomes fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Tunnel after ceiling collapse

KOSHU, Japan - The inbound lanes in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, are shown to reporters on Jan. 15, 2013, for the first time since the fatal collapse of interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012.

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Tunnel after ceiling collapse

KOSHU, Japan - The inbound lanes in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, are shown to reporters on Jan. 15, 2013, for the first time since the fatal collapse of interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012.

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Tunnel after ceiling collapse

KOSHU, Japan - The inbound lanes in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, are shown to reporters on Jan. 15, 2013, for the first time since the fatal collapse of interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012.

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Express tunnel collapse

KOSHU, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2012, shows a truck being moved out of Sasago Tunnel in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, after being trapped when the tunnel's concrete ceiling collapsed the previous day. The police confirmed nine bodies in three vehicles including the truck trapped inside the 4.7-kilometer tunnel on the Chuo Expressway.

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Express tunnel collapse

KOSHU, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2012, shows a truck being towed away from Sasago Tunnel in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, after being trapped when the tunnel's concrete ceiling collapsed the previous day. The police confirmed nine bodies in three vehicles including the truck trapped inside the 4.7-kilometer tunnel on the Chuo Expressway.

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Express tunnel collapse

KOSHU, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2012, shows a vehicle outside Sasago Tunnel in Koshu, Yamanashi Prefecture, after being trapped when the tunnel's concrete ceiling collapsed the previous day. The police confirmed nine bodies in three vehicles including this one trapped inside the 4.7-kilometer tunnel on the Chuo Expressway.

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Expressway tunnel caves in

KOFU, Japan - Photo shows rescue workers at the scene of a cave-in inside the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, as captured by the expressway operator's monitoring camera, on Dec. 2, 2012. The accident left several people dead, police said.

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Expressway tunnel caves in

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers near the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on Dec. 2, 2012. The tunnel caved in, leaving several people dead, police said.

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Expressway tunnel caves in

KOFU, Japan - Photo shows rescue workers and reporters near the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on Dec. 2, 2012. The tunnel caved in, leaving several people dead, police said.

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Expressway tunnel caves in

KOFU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows smoke billowing out of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on Dec. 2, 2012. The tunnel caved in, leaving several people dead, police said.

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Return rush from Bon holidays

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 15, 2012, shows the Tokyo-bound lane of the Chuo Expressway jammed with vehicles near the Uenohara interchange in Yamanashi Prefecture. The rush of vacationers returning home after spending the mid-August Bon summer holidays in their hometowns or tourist spots away from the nation's metropolitan areas peaked the same day.

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Snow falls in Tokyo, vicinity

TOKYO, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a truck that fell on its side on Chuo Expressway in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 24, 2012. A number of traffic accidents occurred as vehicles skidded on slippery roads after a big snow fall in Tokyo and its vicinity.

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Congestion on roads continues during Golden Week holidays

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo-bound lanes of the Chuo Expressway are congested in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 3, 2010, as people return to urban areas after spending the Golden Week holidays in hometowns and resorts.

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Vacationers' exodus peaks at Narita, roads and trains jammed

TOKYO, Japan - A toll gate on the Chuo Expressway in Tokyo's Hachioji is congested with motor vehicles on Aug. 8 as people head for their hometowns and other destinations during the Japanese ''Bon'' summer holidays.

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4 dead, 10 injured in pileup on Chuo Expressway in Nagano

NAGOYA, Japan - An aerial photo of a pileup accident on the Chuo Expressway in the village of Achi, Nagano Prefecture. The pileup involving some 20 cars and trucks occurred at around 1 a.m. on Sept. 14, killing four people and injuring at least 10 others.

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4 dead, 10 injured in pileup on Chuo Expressway in Nagano

NAGOYA, Japan - Rescue workers work at the site of a pileup accident in the village of Achi, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 14. Four people were killed and 10 others injured in the pileup involving some 20 cars and trucks.

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Tokyo tollgates flooded with vacationers

TOKYO, Japan - Outbound vehicles from Tokyo during the Golden Week holidays are seen flooding a tollgate on the Chuo Expressway in Hichioji, Tokyo, May 2.

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Bus carrying 41 Thai tourists catches fire in tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - Police officers examine a burnt sightseeing bus April 5 near the Sasago Tunnel in the Tokyo-bound lane of Chuo Expressway in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, after the bus carrying 41 Thai tourists caught fire in the tunnel. Two girls were wounded in the fire while evacuating the bus.

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Chuo Expressway jammed with vacationer's cars

TOKYO, Japan - People going back to their hometowns for the summer holidays during the Bon Festival for the dead flock at a toll gate at Hachioji, west of Tokyo on Aug. 10.

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JR bus company chief apologizes over drunken driver

NAGOYA, Japan - Kimiyuki Yoshikawa, president of JR Tokai Bus, a unit of Central Japan Railway Co., apologizes in Nagoya on July 8 for an incident in which a drunken bus driver ran his vehicle into a parked car at a service area on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 7.

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4 dead, 10 hurt in 14-vehicle pileup on Chuo Expressway

KOFU, Japan - Three men and a woman died and 10 people were injured in a 14-vehicle pileup on the Chuo Expressway in Nishikatsura, Yamanashi Prefecture, on March 20. Police said smoke from a fire burning by the side of the expressway may have hindered drivers' vision and led to the pileup.

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4 dead, 10 hurt in 14-vehicle pileup on Chuo Expressway

KOFU, Japan - Three men and a woman died and 10 people were injured in a 14-vehicle pileup on the Chuo Expressway in Nishikatsura, Yamanashi Prefecture, on March 20. Police said smoke from a fire burning by the side of the expressway may have hindered drivers' vision and led to the pileup.

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JR bus company chief apologizes over drunken driver

NAGOYA, Japan - Kimiyuki Yoshikawa, president of JR Tokai Bus, a unit of Central Japan Railway Co., apologizes in Nagoya on July 8 for an incident in which a drunken bus driver ran his vehicle into a parked car at a service area on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture on July 7.

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CHUO EXPRESSWAY

CHUO EXPRESSWAY==Date:Jan, 1968, Place:Tokyo,JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Court denies company executives' negligence in deadly tunnel collapse

Relatives of five of the nine people killed in the December 2012 Sasago Tunnel roof collapse on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture head to the Yokohama District Court in Yokohama on Feb. 16, 2016. Later in the day the court rejected their claim that negligence by executives of a Nagoya-based expressway operator and its road maintenance subsidiary contributed to the roof's collapse. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court orders operators to pay damages over tunnel collapse deaths

Relatives of victims killed when the concrete ceiling of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture collapsed in 2012 head to the Yokohama District Court on Dec. 22, 2015. The court ordered Central Nippon Expressway Co. to pay around 440 million yen ($3.62 million) in damages to the families of five of the nine victims, finding the Nagoya-based expressway operator and its Tokyo-based subsidiary had failed to appropriately maintain and repair the aging structure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 dead, 10 injured in pileup on Chuo Expressway in Nagano

NAGOYA, Japan - An aerial photo of a pileup accident on the Chuo Expressway in the village of Achi, Nagano Prefecture. The pileup involving some 20 cars and trucks occurred at around 1 a.m. on Sept. 14, killing four people and injuring at least 10 others. (Kyodo)

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4 dead, 10 injured in pileup on Chuo Expressway in Nagano

NAGOYA, Japan - Rescue workers work at the site of a pileup accident in the village of Achi, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 14. Four people were killed and 10 others injured in the pileup involving some 20 cars and trucks. (Kyodo)

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Snow falls in Tokyo, vicinity

TOKYO, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a truck that fell on its side on Chuo Expressway in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 24, 2012. A number of traffic accidents occurred as vehicles skidded on slippery roads after a big snow fall in Tokyo and its vicinity. (Kyodo)

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Congestion on roads continues during Golden Week holidays

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo-bound lanes of the Chuo Expressway are congested in the city of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 3, 2010, as people return to urban areas after spending the Golden Week holidays in hometowns and resorts. (Kyodo)

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Movements under way to restore lost scenery around Nihombashi bridge

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 24, 1963, shows the Metropolitan Expressway under construction over the Nihombashi bridge in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. (Kyodo)

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Revised traffic law to prevent tailgating in Japan

A police officer hands out a flyer to a passerby at a rest area on the Chuo Expressway in Hachioji, western Tokyo, on June 29, 2020, a day before a revised road traffic law imposing harsher penalties for road rage incidents takes effect. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Metropolitan Expressway

Photo taken Aug. 13, 2018, shows an entrance to the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo