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Taiwan: Typhoon Danas Batters Southern Region, Leaving Widespread Damage 3

Typhoon Danas made landfall near Chiayi's Budai Township around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, bringing gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southern region. Typhoon Danas weakened to a tropical storm after its eye departed Taiwan early Monday.

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ANA selling Jumbo jetliner seats

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. puts on sale on Dec. 25, 2014, premier-class passenger seats from a Boeing 747 retired from service due to high maintenance costs.

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Police raid JR Hokkaido over data falsification

SAPPORO, Japan - Police investigators enter the head office of Hokkaido Railway Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 12, 2014, for a raid in connection with falsification of maintenance data.

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JR Hokkaido scandal

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Railway Co. President Makoto Nojima (2nd from R) and other executives bow in apology during a press conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Jan. 21, 2014. The railway operator announced punitive measures on a total of 75 employees over the failure to fix rail defects and the falsification of track maintenance data at the railway operator.

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Gov't instructs JR Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota holds a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2014, on the ministry's instruction to Hokkaido Railway Co. in the wake of the previous year's revelations that it failed to fix rail defects and falsified track maintenance data.

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JR Hokkaido apologizes for data falsification

SAPPORO, Japan - Makoto Nojima (C), president of Hokkaido Railway Co., known as JR Hokkaido, holds a press conference at the company's headquarters in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Nov. 13, 2013, where he apologized over the railway operator's falsification of maintenance data.

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JR Hokkaido apologizes for data falsification

SAPPORO, Japan - Makoto Nojima (C), president of Hokkaido Railway Co., known as JR Hokkaido, bows with others at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Nov. 13, 2013, where he apologized over the railway operator's falsification of maintenance data.

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JR Hokkaido finds in-house maintenance rule violations

SAPPORO, Japan - Makoto Nojima, president of Hokkaido Railway Co., tells a press conference at the company's head office in Sapporo on Sept. 22, 2013, that it has found violations of its in-house track maintenance rules at a total of 97 locations on its railway lines.

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Operators at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012, look at displays in the central control room for the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, after Japan's last operating commercial reactor went offline for mandatory routine maintenance. The nation was left without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken at 11:08 p.m. on May 5, 2012, shows Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor can be seen to the right. The photo was taken shortly after the reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, indicates the output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, has fallen to zero at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor going offline

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, indicates output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari in the prefecture falling at 5:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011.

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Japan's last nuclear reactor going offline

TOKYO, Japan - An operator at 5:04 p.m. on May 5, 2012, looks at a display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, that shows output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village in the prefecture. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011.

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011.

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters stand in long lines waiting for buses during the rush-hour on Sept. 9, 2009, outside Kasai-Nishi Station on the Tokyo Metro Co.'s Tozai Line after the commute in and around the Tokyo downtown area was disrupted by an accident at a station on the line. A railway maintenance train bumped into an unoccupied passenger train at 4:08 a.m. at Toyocho Station where the 10-car train was parked ahead of its service, but no one was injured in the collision.

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters stand in long lines waiting for buses during the rush-hour on Sept. 9, 2009, outside Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Co.'s Tozai Line after the commute in and around the Tokyo downtown area was disrupted by an accident at a station on the line. A railway maintenance train bumped into an unoccupied passenger train at 4:08 a.m. at Toyocho Station where the 10-car train was parked ahead of its service, but no one was injured in the collision.

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metro Co. employees check on a passenger train at Toyocho Station on the Tozai Line which a railway maintenance train bumped into in the early morning of Sept. 9, 2009. No one was injured in the collision as the passenger train was unoccupied, but the accident disrupted the rush-hour commute in and around the downtown area.

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Narita Express scrapes maintenance vehicle, no injuries reported

TOKYO, Japan - An express train (L) bound for Narita international airport scrapes a conveyer belt of a railway track maintenance vehicle on Sept. 3 in Tokyo, but no injuries were reported. East Japan Railway Co. said both vehicles scraped each other when the conveyer belt stuck out over a fence separating the tracks between JR's Shibuya and Ebisu Station.

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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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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two.

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Bullet train derailed in Niigata quake shown to press

NIIGATA, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. on Dec. 2 shows reporters bullet train cars from Toki No. 325. The train was derailed during the Oct. 23 earthquake and later transferred to a maintenance facility in Niigata.

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Used PC market expanding rapidly

TOKYO, Japan - Workers at a maintenance plant of NEC Personal Products Co., a subsidiary of NEC Corp., in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, exchanges parts of used personal computers.

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Ex-chief of Osaka police headquarters to head Mycal

OSAKA, Japan - Osamu Shikata (R), who has been appointed to succeed Kotaro Utsunomiya (L) as president of retailer Mycal Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Jan. 11. The 70-year-old Shikata, former chief of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, is currently president of Japan Maintenance Co., a Mycal subsidiary specializing in the maintenance of buildings.

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Honda launches advanced version of ASIMO robot

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows newly improved version of the humanoid robot ASIMO introduced for rental in Japan by Honda Motor Co. on Nov. 12. The latest version of ASIMO, first introduced in November 2000, moves more freely in ordinary environments, can climb and descend stairs and slopes, and can perform similar functions to those of a receptionist, as it can understand voice input and provide directions. Rental fees are 20 million yen per unit for a one-year contract, including maintenance costs, or 2 million yen for one-day use.

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Bullet train derailed in Niigata quake shown to press

NIIGATA, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. on Dec. 2 shows reporters bullet train cars from Toki No. 325. The train was derailed during the Oct. 23 earthquake and later transferred to a maintenance facility in Niigata.(Kyodo)

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters stand in long lines waiting for buses during the rush-hour on Sept. 9, 2009, outside Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Co.'s Tozai Line after the commute in and around the Tokyo downtown area was disrupted by an accident at a station on the line. A railway maintenance train bumped into an unoccupied passenger train at 4:08 a.m. at Toyocho Station where the 10-car train was parked ahead of its service, but no one was injured in the collision. (Kyodo)

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Metro Co. employees check on a passenger train at Toyocho Station on the Tozai Line which a railway maintenance train bumped into in the early morning of Sept. 9, 2009. No one was injured in the collision as the passenger train was unoccupied, but the accident disrupted the rush-hour commute in and around the downtown area. (Kyodo)

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Early-morning subway accident disrupts Tokyo commute

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters stand in long lines waiting for buses during the rush-hour on Sept. 9, 2009, outside Kasai-Nishi Station on the Tokyo Metro Co.'s Tozai Line after the commute in and around the Tokyo downtown area was disrupted by an accident at a station on the line. A railway maintenance train bumped into an unoccupied passenger train at 4:08 a.m. at Toyocho Station where the 10-car train was parked ahead of its service, but no one was injured in the collision. (Kyodo)

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Narita Express scrapes maintenance vehicle, no injuries reported

TOKYO, Japan - An express train (L) bound for Narita international airport scrapes a conveyer belt of a railway track maintenance vehicle on Sept. 3 in Tokyo, but no injuries were reported. East Japan Railway Co. said both vehicles scraped each other when the conveyer belt stuck out over a fence separating the tracks between JR's Shibuya and Ebisu Station. (Kyodo)

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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two. (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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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken at 11:08 p.m. on May 5, 2012, shows Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor can be seen to the right. The photo was taken shortly after the reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, indicates the output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, has fallen to zero at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, went offline for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor goes offline

SAPPORO, Japan - Operators at 11:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012, look at displays in the central control room for the No. 3 reactor at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, after Japan's last operating commercial reactor went offline for mandatory routine maintenance. The nation was left without electricity generated by nuclear power for the first time in 42 years, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor going offline

TOKYO, Japan - A display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, indicates output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari in the prefecture falling at 5:03 p.m. on May 5, 2012. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Japan's last nuclear reactor going offline

TOKYO, Japan - An operator at 5:04 p.m. on May 5, 2012, looks at a display in the head office of Hokkaido Electric Power Co. in Sapporo, Hokkaido, that shows output of the No. 3 reactor at its Tomari nuclear power plant in the village in the prefecture. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken at 8:15 p.m. on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (R) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, was set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Kyodo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Kyodo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Kyodo)

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Tomari nuclear power plant

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 5, 2012, shows the facilities of Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido. The building housing the No. 3 reactor (front) can be seen. The reactor, Japan's last operating commercial nuclear reactor, is set to go offline late the same day for mandatory routine maintenance, leaving the nation without atomic-generated electricity for the first time in 42 years in the wake of the quake-triggered Fukushima nuclear crisis in March 2011. (Kyodo)

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ANA selling Jumbo jetliner seats

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. puts on sale on Dec. 25, 2014, premier-class passenger seats from a Boeing 747 retired from service due to high maintenance costs. (Kyodo)

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 31, 2021, shows an Airdo Co. plane at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo will tie up with Solaseed Air Inc., another medium-sized airline based in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 31, 2021, shows an Airdo Co. plane at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo will tie up with Solaseed Air Inc., another medium-sized airline based in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 30, 2021, shows a Solaseed Air Inc. plane at Miyazaki airport. The medium-sized airline based in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki will tie up with Airdo Co., another medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 30, 2021, shows a Solaseed Air Inc. plane at Miyazaki airport. The medium-sized airline based in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki will tie up with Airdo Co., another medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 31, 2021, shows a logo of Airdo Co. at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo will tie up with Solaseed Air Inc., another medium-sized airline based in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 31, 2021, shows an Airdo Co. plane at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo will tie up with Solaseed Air Inc., another medium-sized airline based in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.

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Business linkup between Airdo and Solaseed Air

Photo taken on May 31, 2021, shows a logo of Solaseed Air Inc. at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The medium-sized airline based in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki will tie up with Airdo Co., another medium-sized airline based in the northern Japan city of Sapporo, in aircraft maintenance and equipment procurement.