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[Breaking News]Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

KAWASAKI, Japan, Oct. 6 Kyodo - Investigators from the Japan Transport Safety Board and employees of train operator Tokyo Railways inspect on Oct. 6, 2025, two trains that collided the previous night near Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. A train bound for Tokyo's Shibuya collided with an out-of-service train, causing part of it to derail. No one was injured. (Kyodo)

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Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Investigators from the Japan Transport Safety Board and employees of train operator Tokyo Railways inspect on Oct. 6, 2025, two trains that collided the previous night near Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. A train bound for Tokyo's Shibuya collided with an out-of-service train, causing part of it to derail. No one was injured.

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[Breaking News]United plane after emergency landing

OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 15 Kyodo - Video shows a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane during an investigation by Japan Transport Safety Board officers at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold. (Kyodo)

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officer Mitsuru Takahashi meets the press at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, after investigating a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane that made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold two days earlier.

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officers enter a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane to conduct an investigation at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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United plane after emergency landing

Photo shows a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane during an investigation by Japan Transport Safety Board officers at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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United plane after emergency landing

Japan Transport Safety Board officers investigate a United Airlines Boeing 737 plane at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2025, two days after it made an emergency landing after reporting a fire alarm in its cargo hold.

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Cargo train derailment involving JR Hokkaido

TOKYO, Japan - Norihiro Goto, chairman of the Japan Transport Safety Board, tells a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2013, board inspectors found the track at the site of a Hokkaido Railway Co. cargo train derailment Sept. 19 to be up to 37 millimeters wider than normal, compared with 25 mm as found in June.

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Dreamliner probe

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo shows an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Takamatsu airport, western Japan, on April 8, 2013. The Japan Transport Safety Board, which is investigating a battery-related incident onboard the grounded aircraft, began conducting tests.

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Probe into ANA's Boeing 787

TOKYO, Japan - Norihiro Goto, chairman of the Japan Transport Safety Board, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2013. The Japanese transport authority looking into an incident on board an All Nippon Airways Co.'s Boeing 787 said no faults were found in the airplane's electric system after a lithium-ion battery overheated.

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Shinkansen derailment

DAISEN, Japan - A Japan Transport Safety Board inspector examines the area around a wheel of a bullet train in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on March 3, 2013, that derailed on the Akita Shinkansen Line the previous day.

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Hawaiian Airlines plane mistakenly enters runway

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Three inspectors of the Japan Transport Safety Board, an arm of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, head for an office of the ministry at Kansai airport near Osaka on Oct. 13, 2011 to investigate an incident that occurred the previous night at the airport. A Honolulu-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger plane mistakenly entered a runway, just minutes before a cargo jet was due to land. No one was injured in the incident, which involved two Boeing 767 planes.

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JR West ordered to improve business

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) hands a notice to West Japan Railway Co. President Takayuki Sasaki on Sept. 28, 2009, ordering the company to improve its business practices after the railway operator admitted late last week that it had obtained a draft report on the cause of a 2005 fatal derailment involving its train services from a member of the government safety board.

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Narita reopens main Runway A after removing cargo plane wreckage

NARITA, Japan - Japan Transport Safety Board officials and FedEx Corp. executives inspect on March 24 debris from a FedEx cargo plane that crash-landed at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, the day before, killing the American pilot and copilot. The wreckage was fully removed from Runway A the same day, enabling Japan's largest international gateway to reopen its main runway.

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Korean ferry allowed to leave Niigata port

NIIGATA, Japan - Passengers go on board the North Korean ferry Mangyongbong-92 after the Japanese transport ministry gave conditional permission for the 9,672-ton ship to leave Niigata port on Aug. 26. The ship's crew accepted Japanese instructions to have some of its problematic equipment meet international safety standards.

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Glider crash in Hokkaido

Japan Transport Safety Board officers (far L and 4th from L) investigate a crashed glider in the Hokkaido town of Biei, northern Japan, on Oct. 13, 2021, a day after both of the two men aboard died.

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Glider crash in Hokkaido

Japan Transport Safety Board officers (far L and far R) investigate a crashed glider in the Hokkaido town of Biei, northern Japan, on Oct. 13, 2021, a day after both of the two men aboard died.

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Glider crash in Hokkaido

A Japan Transport Safety Board officer (2nd from R) investigates a crashed glider in the Hokkaido town of Biei, northern Japan, on Oct. 13, 2021, a day after both of the two men aboard died.

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Police probe deadly glider crash in Japan

Photo taken March 18, 2016, shows police and Japan Transport Safety Board officials investigating the previous day's glider crash into a residential area in Sakae, Chiba Prefecture, that killed the two men on board. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport safety board begins investigation of JAL incident

Passengers who were forced to evacuate a Japan Airlines Co. plane bound for Fukuoka, line up at the check-in counter at Chitose airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 24, 2016, to board a replacement aircraft. Smoke filled the cabin of the plane they had been scheduled to fly, forcing the evacuation of 159 passengers and six crew members prior to takeoff the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport safety board begins investigation of JAL incident

Investigators of the Japan Transport Safety Board arrive at Chitose airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 24, 2016, to begin a probe into an incident involving a Japan Airlines Co. plane. Smoke filled the cabin of the plane bound for Fukuoka before takeoff, forcing the evacuation of 159 passengers and six crew members the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport safety board begins probe into shinkansen power failure

Photo taken Aug. 9, 2015, shows a scarred car of the Sakura 561 bullet train that has been stopped since it came to an emergency stop a day earlier due to a power failure. The Japan Transport Safety Board launched an investigation on Aug. 10 into the power failure on the train running in southwestern Japan. An aluminum panel had fallen off the second car of the eight-car train and apparently hit the train body, according to West Japan Railway Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport safety board starts investigation

Three investigators of the Japan Transport Safety Board are ready to start investigations on June 4, 2015, over an alleged severe breach of runway safety involving three aircraft, including an Air Self-Defense Force helicopter, at Naha Airport in the southernmost Japanese prefecture of Okinawa the previous day. The airport with a 3,000-meter runway is used by both civilian and Self-Defense Forces aircraft. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe begins after Asiana Airlines failed landing in Hiroshima

Investigators from the Japan Transport Safety Board enter the organization's office at Hiroshima airport in western Japan on April 15, 2015. They will probe the cause of an accident the night before in which an Asiana Airlines aircraft from Seoul ran off the runway at the airport, leaving more than 20 passengers injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Narita reopens main Runway A after removing cargo plane wreckage

NARITA, Japan - Japan Transport Safety Board officials and FedEx Corp. executives inspect on March 24 debris from a FedEx cargo plane that crash-landed at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, the day before, killing the American pilot and copilot. The wreckage was fully removed from Runway A the same day, enabling Japan's largest international gateway to reopen its main runway. (Kyodo)

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Hawaiian Airlines plane mistakenly enters runway

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - Three inspectors of the Japan Transport Safety Board, an arm of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, head for an office of the ministry at Kansai airport near Osaka on Oct. 13, 2011 to investigate an incident that occurred the previous night at the airport. A Honolulu-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger plane mistakenly entered a runway, just minutes before a cargo jet was due to land. No one was injured in the incident, which involved two Boeing 767 planes. (Kyodo)

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JR West ordered to improve business

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Seiji Maehara (R) hands a notice to West Japan Railway Co. President Takayuki Sasaki on Sept. 28, 2009, ordering the company to improve its business practices after the railway operator admitted late last week that it had obtained a draft report on the cause of a 2005 fatal derailment involving its train services from a member of the government safety board. (Kyodo)

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Korean ferry allowed to leave Niigata port

NIIGATA, Japan - Passengers go on board the North Korean ferry Mangyongbong-92 after the Japanese transport ministry gave conditional permission for the 9,672-ton ship to leave Niigata port on Aug. 26. The ship's crew accepted Japanese instructions to have some of its problematic equipment meet international safety standards. (Kyodo)