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Japan: Shinagawa Station Overcrowded as Train Suspensions Disrupt Rush Hour

On Wednesday, train suspensions caused by a fatal accident disrupted the evening rush hour, leading to severe congestion at stations. At Shinagawa Station, platforms were packed with passengers and became dangerously overcrowded. According to JR East, the accident occurred between Yokohama and Shin-Kawasaki stations on the Yokosuka Line. As a result, services on the Yokosuka Line and several other major lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area were temporarily suspended.

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Power outage stops train in Japan

Commuters crowd the Keikyu Kamata Station in Tokyo after JR train services were suspended due to a power outage between JR Shimbashi and Shinagawa stations, disrupting major rail lines in the Japanese capital on Jan. 16, 2026.

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Dominican Republic: Tropical Storm Melissa Batters, Causing Damage and Disruptions 2

Tropical Storm Melissa swept through the Dominican Republic, toppling trees, traffic lights, and triggering small landslides. Authorities closed schools and government offices across several provinces as the storm disrupted water systems and threatened severe flooding. Melissa is expected to strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane this weekend as it lashes the Caribbean with heavy rain and destructive winds.

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Indonesia: Mt. Lewotobi Erupts, Triggers Highest Alert and Spews Ash High Into Sky

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, erupted late Tuesday, October 15, and again early Wednesday, spewing ash up to 10 kilometers into the sky. Indonesia’s volcanology agency raised the alert to its highest level after detecting deep tremors that signaled possible explosive activity.

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US: Severe Weather Warning for Houston Area With Hail, High Winds, Tornado Risk

The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Houston area until evening of Monday, May 5. It brought hail, damaging winds, flooding, and possible tornadoes.

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US: Sunset Fire Ignites In Hollywood Hills, Triggering Mandatory Evacuation Orders

A brush fire, dubbed the Sunset Fire, broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday evening, January 8, triggering mandatory evacuation orders.

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Philippines: Thunderstorms Hit, Bringing Intense Rainfall To Central Regions

The regions of Visayas, Bicol, Calabarzon, and Mimaropa may experience cloudy skies with scattered rains as isolated thunderstorms hit. According to reports, heavy rainfall of 100 to 200 mm was expected in Northern Samar on Monday.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa (bottom) and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Explosive coronavirus infections in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 7 Kyodo - Commuters wearing face masks head to work at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 7, 2021, as Japan is poised to declare another state of emergency in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures later in the day in view of the unabated uptrend in coronavirus infections. The capital's virus cases for the day topped 2,000 for the first time.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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JR Tokai to hold ceremonies for maglev train project

TOKYO, Japan - Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co., also known as JR Tokai, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014. Tsuge said the company will hold ceremonies to pray for the safety of work to build a magnetically levitated train line at JR Shinagawa and JR Nagoya Stations on Dec. 17. Last month, the Japanese government approved JR Tokai's application to construct the line linking Shinagawa and Nagoya by 2017.

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JR Tokai holds briefing for residents near Maglev project

NAGOYA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., known as JR Tokai, holds a briefing session in Nagoya on Oct. 27, 2014, for residents who live around a magnetically levitated train line to be built between Tokyo and the central Japanese city. JR Tokai aims to open Tokyo's Shinagawa-Nagoya maglev train line in 2027.

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Hunting for AUM fugitive

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers leave for a patrol from JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo to look for Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM Shinrikyo cult fugitive, on June 9, 2012. Takahashi has been wanted over the cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

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TEPCO power supply-demand ratio indicators

TOKYO, Japan - Displays at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo show power demand in Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s service areas came to 90 percent of the utility's supply capacity in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2011. The demand reached 49.36 million kilowatts after 2 p.m. the same day, the largest so far this summer and equal to 90.4 percent of the supply capacity, according to preliminary data released by the company. Demand for electricity grew as high temperatures increased the use of air conditioners, the utility, known as TEPCO, said.

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Typhoon lands in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters jam a passage in Tokyo's Shinagawa Station after a number of JR train runs were suspended due to Typhoon Melor on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Commuters stranded by thundering rainstorm in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters are stranded at JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo on July 29 as a thundering rainstorm knocked out train service of the busy JR Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines. The downpour also halted the Shinkansen bullet train service between Shinagawa in Tokyo and Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture and cut short a pre-Olympic soccer game in Tokyo between Japan and Argentina.

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Tokyo Monorail link to Haneda airport resumes

TOKYO, Japan - A maintenance vehicle of the Tokyo Monorail Co. gets stuck in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Nov. 24 due to brake trouble. The services of the monorail, which links JR Lines in central Tokyo and Haneda airport, were suspended for eight hours, affecting some 54,000 passengers.

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Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in last defiant gesture

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passing by JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo picks up a copy of an extra reporting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. The headline reads: Koizumi is the first prime minister in office to visit the shrine on the anniversary of the end of the war in 21 years.

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Met. gov't, JR East in conflict over hike on property tax

TOKYO, Japan - Stores are jammed with customers at ''Ecute (cute station) Shinagawa'' in JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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(1)Tokyo's Shinagawa opens bullet train station

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers walk into the main concourse of a new Shinkansen bullet train station which opened at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Oct. 1 Shinagawa lies between Tokyo and Shin-Yokohama on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, which runs to Shin-Osaka and then continues to Hakata in Kyushu as the Sanyo Shinkansen Line. The station brings the number of bullet train stops in the capital to three, including Ueno, which serves northeastern Japan.

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NGOs call for release of Afghan refugees detained in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 30 representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) call for the release of Afghan refugees currently detained in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, at Tokyo's JR Shinagawa Station on Jan. 21 as nations around the world and international institutions gathered in Tokyo to discuss reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan.

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Japan's struggle to contain COVID

People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk on a pedestrian crossing in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on July 22, 2022. Tokyo reported 34,995 new COVID-19 cases the same day, reaching an all-time high for the second consecutive day.

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Japan's struggle to contain COVID

People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk on a pedestrian crossing in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on July 22, 2022. Tokyo reported 34,995 new COVID-19 cases the same day, reaching an all-time high for the second consecutive day.

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Preparations for "Quad" summit in Tokyo

Police officers and security dogs patrol at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on May 11, 2022, ahead of a summit in the capital on May 24 of the "Quad" group of Indo-Pacific democracies -- the United States, Japan, Australia and India.

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Strong earthquake in Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2021, as train services are disrupted after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted the Tokyo region.

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Strong earthquake in Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2021, as train services are disrupted after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted the Tokyo region.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo as train services are suspended after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

People sit outside entrance gates at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo as train services are suspended after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

Train passengers wait outside entrance gates at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021, leading to a power outage inside the station.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

A Tokaido Line train is stopped at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021, leading to a power outage at the station.

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NGOs call for release of Afghan refugees detained in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 30 representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) call for the release of Afghan refugees currently detained in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, at Tokyo's JR Shinagawa Station on Jan. 21 as nations around the world and international institutions gathered in Tokyo to discuss reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan.

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Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in last defiant gesture

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passing by JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo picks up a copy of an extra reporting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. The headline reads: Koizumi is the first prime minister in office to visit the shrine in 21 years. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in last defiant gesture

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passing by JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo picks up a copy of an extra reporting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. The headline reads: Koizumi is the first prime minister in office to visit the shrine on the anniversary of the end of the war in 21 years. (Kyodo)

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JR East checks poles following Yamanote line suspension

Workers examine a pole on April 13, 2015, near JR Shinagawa station in Tokyo, after the collapse of two poles suspended service on the Yamanote loop line in central Tokyo and the parallel Keihin-Tohoku line for more than nine hours the previous day. The railway operator has started to check some 50,000 similar poles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ueno-Tokyo railway line launched

The limited express Hitachi departs from Tokyo's JR Shinagawa Station on March 14, 2015, the first train to run on the brand-new Ueno-Tokyo Line, allowing the Utsunomiya, Takasaki and Joban lines to be directly connected with the Tokaido Main Line. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo scene amid coronavirus pandemic

People wearing masks pass through JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on their way to work on Jan. 7, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan to extend virus emergency to March 7 as hospitals strained

Commuters wearing face masks head to work at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2021. The Japanese government is set to extend a coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions by one month to March 7 in view of manpower-strapped hospitals amid a surge in serious patients.

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Japan to extend virus emergency to March 7 as hospitals strained

Commuters wearing face masks head to work at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2021. The Japanese government is set to extend a coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions by one month to March 7 in view of manpower-strapped hospitals amid a surge in serious patients.

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Japan to extend virus emergency to March 7 as hospitals strained

Commuters wearing face masks head to work at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Feb. 2, 2021. The Japanese government is set to extend a coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and other regions by one month to March 7 in view of manpower-strapped hospitals amid a surge in serious patients.

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Commuters stranded by thundering rainstorm in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters are stranded at JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo on July 29 as a thundering rainstorm knocked out train service of the busy JR Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines. The downpour also halted the Shinkansen bullet train service between Shinagawa in Tokyo and Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture and cut short a pre-Olympic soccer game in Tokyo between Japan and Argentina. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Monorail link to Haneda airport resumes

TOKYO, Japan - A maintenance vehicle of the Tokyo Monorail Co. gets stuck in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Nov. 24 due to brake trouble. The services of the monorail, which links JR Lines in central Tokyo and Haneda airport, were suspended for eight hours, affecting some 54,000 passengers. (Kyodo)

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Typhoon lands in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters jam a passage in Tokyo's Shinagawa Station after a number of JR train runs were suspended due to Typhoon Melor on Oct. 8, 2009. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO power supply-demand ratio indicators

TOKYO, Japan - Displays at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo show power demand in Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s service areas came to 90 percent of the utility's supply capacity in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2011. The demand reached 49.36 million kilowatts after 2 p.m. the same day, the largest so far this summer and equal to 90.4 percent of the supply capacity, according to preliminary data released by the company. Demand for electricity grew as high temperatures increased the use of air conditioners, the utility, known as TEPCO, said. (Kyodo)

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JR Tokai to hold ceremonies for maglev train project

TOKYO, Japan - Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co., also known as JR Tokai, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014. Tsuge said the company will hold ceremonies to pray for the safety of work to build a magnetically levitated train line at JR Shinagawa and JR Nagoya Stations on Dec. 17. Last month, the Japanese government approved JR Tokai's application to construct the line linking Shinagawa and Nagoya by 2017. (Kyodo)

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JR Tokai holds briefing for residents near Maglev project

NAGOYA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., known as JR Tokai, holds a briefing session in Nagoya on Oct. 27, 2014, for residents who live around a magnetically levitated train line to be built between Tokyo and the central Japanese city. JR Tokai aims to open Tokyo's Shinagawa-Nagoya maglev train line in 2027. (Kyodo)

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa (bottom) and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day. (Kyodo)

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day. (Kyodo)

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State of emergency declared for Tokyo metropolitan area

People wearing face masks walk at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2021. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency in the Tokyo metropolitan area the previous day due to a recent surge in coronavirus infections.