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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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[Breaking News]Snake disrupts shinkansen services

TOKYO, Japan, May 1 Kyodo - An electronic sign at JR Tokyo Station notifies passengers of a significant delay on the Tokaido Shinkansen line connecting Tokyo and Osaka on April 30, 2025, following the disruption of services after a snake became entangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage. (Kyodo)

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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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Snake disrupts shinkansen services

An electronic sign at JR Tokyo Station notifies passengers of a significant delay on the Tokaido Shinkansen line connecting Tokyo and Osaka on April 30, 2025, following the disruption of services after a snake became entangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage.

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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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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 9

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along the Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Tokyo-Osaka bullet train service resumes after halt

A train service information board at JR Hamamatsu Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, shows the resumption of services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines on the morning of July 23, 2024. An accident involving railway maintenance vehicles caused an all-day suspension on part of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line a day earlier, while the Sanyo Shinkansen Line was also disrupted by the accident.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 8

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 5

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 6

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 7

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 3

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 4

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 2

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Shinkansen exhibition to commemorate 50th anniversary

NAGOYA, Japan - A girl looks at a miniature Shinkansen bullet train at an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line at JR Nagoya Takashimaya department store in Nagoya, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014. The exhibition will run till Aug. 17.

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Police, fire authorities examine fire site in central Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen line runs on Jan. 4, 2014, by the site near the JR Yurakucho Station in central Tokyo where the previous day a fire caused bullet train service to be suspended for about five hours.

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Returning New Year's travelers reach peak

TOKYO, Japan - A platform of the Tokaido Shinkansen line at JR Tokyo Station in central Tokyo is flooded with travelers on Jan. 4, 2014, as they returned from their hometowns and resort areas. The peak of travelers returning from the New Year's holidays continued before Jan. 6 when most people begin work for the year.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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Fire near Shinkansen track

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a bullet train of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line passing by a fire that broke out near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 3, 2014. Some operations on the Shinkansen line were later suspended for more than five hours due to the fire.

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New shinkansen train

TOKYO, Japan - A new N700A bullet train enters a platform at JR Tokyo Station on Feb. 1, 2013. Central Japan Railway Co. gave a ride for reporters before the train's launch on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line on Feb. 8.

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New shinkansen train

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a logo on the body of a new N700A bullet train at JR Tokyo Station on Feb. 1, 2013. Central Japan Railway Co. gave a ride for reporters before the train's launch on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line on Feb. 8.

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Quake measures on shinkansen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co. shows reporters a rail (back) with anti-derailment gears in case of a major quake on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at JR Mishima Station in Shizuoka Prefecture on Jan. 9, 2013.

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Antiterrorism drill

GIFU, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., Gifu prefectural police and other entities jointly conduct an antiterrorism drill at JR Gifuhashima bullet train station in Gifu Prefecture on May 28, 2012. The drill at the station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka simulated an attack on the station using a plastic bottle containing liquid that could generate toxic gas.

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Last run of 300 series shinkansen train

TOKYO, Japan - Many railway fans rush to take photos of a 300 series shinkansen train (R) at JR Tokyo Station on March 16, 2012, before it leaves on the last run of the series on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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M6.4 quake jolts Shizuoka Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - A man talks on a mobile phone on a platform at JR Tokyo Station on March 15, 2011, as the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet train service was suspended after a strong earthquake rocked Shizuoka Prefecture and its vicinity, including Tokyo.

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Summer holiday exodus peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers board the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at JR Tokyo Station on August 12, 2010. The annual rush of travelers heading to their hometowns and resorts during Japanese ''Bon'' summer holiday season peaked the same day, with people packing roads, railways and airports.

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Summer holiday exodus peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers pass through ticket gates of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line at JR Tokyo Station on August 12, 2010. The annual rush of travelers heading to their hometowns and resorts during Japanese ''Bon'' summer holiday season peaked the same day, with people packing roads, railways and airports.

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Power failure stops Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

OSAKA, Japan - Passengers gather in front of ticket gates at JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka on Jan. 29, 2010, after the bullet train services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line were temporarily suspended due to an electricity failure apparently triggered by a snapped power wire. A total of six trains were stalled on the line for more than three hours.

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Passenger train crashes into a car, killing 1

HIGASHIOMI, Japan - Inspectors look at the totaled remains of a car which was hit by a passenger train on the JR Tokaido Line at a crossing between Inae and Notogawa stations in Higashiomi, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2010. The train dragged the car for around 80 meters, killing the one man in the car, and stopped after running about 400 meters more, sucking in parts of the car that were smashed.

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Passenger train crashes into a car, killing 1

HIGASHIOMI, Japan - Aerial photo shows a passenger train on the JR Tokaido Line and a car which it crashed into at a crossing between Inae and Notogawa stations in Higashiomi, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2010. The train dragged the car for around 80 meters, killing the one man in the car, and stopped after running about 400 meters more, sucking in parts of the car that were smashed.

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Students play game at quake-hit station

NUMAZU, Japan - Students play a video game at JR Numazu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 11 while awaiting an early resumption of the operation of the trains. The operations of JR trains, including the key Tokaido Line, were partially suspended after a strong earthquake hit the prefecture and its vicinity the same day.

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Bus submerged in flood in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A tunnel running below the JR Tokaido railway line in Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, was flooded July 28, with a kindergarten bus (in the background) and a passenger car (in front) submerged in the water, as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit an extensive area of western Japan. All eight people on the bus were rescued.

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Transport facilities packed as holidaymakers rush home

TOKYO, Japan - JR Tokyo Station is packed as holidaymakers return home at the end of the ''Golden Week'' holidays on May 6. Some of the Shinkansen bullet trains and Tokaido line trains bound for Tokyo were running at more than 100 percent capacity.

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Transport facilities packed as holidaymakers rush home

TOKYO, Japan - JR Tokyo Station is packed as holidaymakers rush home at the end of the ''Golden Week'' holidays on May 6. Some of the Shinkansen bullet trains and Tokaido line trains bound for Tokyo were running at more than 100 percent capacity.

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

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(1)Typhoon Dianmu disrupts air, land, sea travel

OSAKA, Japan - JR Shin-Osaka Station is crowed with passengers on June 21 after bullet train services on sections of the Tokaido Shinkasen line were suspended due in part to power failures caused by powerful Typhoon Dianmu.

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Police boost security of bullet trains amid terrorism fears

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers line up during a ceremony in front of JR Nagoya Station in Nagoya on March 19 to boost their morale as they beef up security on the bullet train system at the station and along the Tokaido Shinkansen Line amid growing fears that terrorist may target Japan.

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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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(3)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

OSAKA, Japan - Noriko Fujibayashi, who is among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, boards a bullet train at JR Shin-Osaka Station on June 20.

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(1)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

TOKYO, Japan - Mika Yamamoto (R), a bullet-train driver on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, and her younger sister Asami, a conductor, speak to reporters on a platform at JR Tokyo Station on June 20 before boarding a Shin-Osaka-bound Hikari bullet train. Mika is among four women who made their debut the same day as the first female drivers on the line linking Tokyo and Osaka.

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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line.

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2 die as train hits car during police chase

OTSU, Japan - A shattered sport-utility vehicle is put on a truck as policemen check the site where two men in the car died early July 28. The men were fleeing police when a train hit their vehicle at a JR Tokaido Line level crossing in Hikone, Shiga Prefecture.

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JR puts up fences on Kyoto station platforms to prevent falls

KYOTO, Japan - A bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen line pulls in to a platform with a safety fence at Kyoto Station on June 4. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) began erecting safety fences on the station's platforms as part of safety measures it is promoting following an accident in January in Tokyo in which three people died.

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Freight train derails at JR Tsurumi Station

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A freight train derailed March 17 in a yard at JR Tsurumi Station in Yokohama, striking a nearby electricity pole and disrupting train services on the Tokaido Line.

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JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.

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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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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line. (Kyodo)

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Fans get rare view of lucky "Dr. Yellow" shinkansen inspection train

Railway fans take photos of a special bullet train used to check rails and overhead cables on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line during a special viewing event hosted by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) at its rail yard in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on July 25, 2015. Nicknamed "Doctor Yellow," the train runs on an irregular and undisclosed timetable, and a chance encounter with it is considered by train buffs as a lucky sign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo