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Expressways jammed amid return rush from holiday exodus

TOKYO, Japan - Joban Expressway is jammed with cars in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. Expressways across the nation continue to be clogged amid the rush of travelers returning home from spending the ''Bon'' summer holidays out of town.

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Expressways jammed amid return rush from holiday exodus

TOKYO, Japan - Joban Expressway is jammed with cars in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. Expressways across the nation continue to be clogged amid the rush of travelers returning home from spending the ''Bon'' summer holidays out of town.

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'Return rush' of vacationers begins

TOKYO, Japan - Toll gates on the Joban Expressway in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, are packed with vehicles heading for Tokyo to return home on Jan. 2 after the year-end and New Year's holiday period.

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Cars pass by radiation dosimeter in Fukushima Pref.

NAMIE, Japan - Cars pass through the expressway gate in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, that connects Namie with the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on the Joban Expressway on Dec. 6, 2014, as the Yamamoto-Soma and Minamisoma-Namie sections opened the same day. The radiation dosimeter board is seen near the gate.

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Horseback warrior appears in Joban Expressway ceremony

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A horseman of the traditional "Soma Nomaoi" festival adds zest to a ceremony in the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, as the northeastern Japanese town was fully connected with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened.

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Ceremony to connect 2 towns on Joban Expressway

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held in the Miyagi Prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, to mark the connection of the northeastern Japanese town with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened.

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JR station near Fukushima nuke plant on way to recovery

SENDAI, Japan - The weed-covered Tatsuta Station in the town of Naraha on the JR Joban railway line is seen in the upper photo taken on Sept. 26, 2012, while the photograph below taken on Sept. 4, 2014, shows the station looking normal as train runs between Tatsuta and Hirono Station, south of Naraha, resumed in June this year.

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'Hula girls' company gives donation to quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - President Naomi Inoue (2nd from front L) of Joban Kosan Co., an operator of hot spring theme park Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, poses with "hula girls" and others for a photo commemorating the company's donation of revenue from a recent hula performance to the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Initiatives Foundation at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2014.

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Part of Joban railway line reopens in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A train runs near a radioactive waste storage yard in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as the Joban Line of East Japan Railway Co. resumes operations on a trial basis between Hirono and Tatsuta stations on May 10, 2014, after suspension caused by the 2011 nuclear plant disaster.

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Hawaiian-style spa park in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Joban Kosan Co. President Kazuhiko Saito (C) and hula dancers attend a press conference in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Saito said Spa Resort Hawaiians, a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, will partly reopen in October after suspending business following the massive earthquake in March and another quake in April.

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Hula dancers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Saito (C), president of Joban Kosan Co., operator of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, answers reporters' questions at the tourism ministry in Tokyo on May 12, 2011. Saito and five hula dancers from the spa resort asked tourism minister Akihiro Ohata to help restore tourism in the city of Iwaki following the March 11 quake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The spa facility has remained closed since the disaster.

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Japan quake aftermath

YAMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken on March 18, 2011, shows remains of a rail track of the JR Joban Line, destroyed by the March 11 quake-triggered tsunami, in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Killer tsunami in Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned on the ground on March 12, 2011, after being swept by tsunami in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country the previous day.

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Megaquake aftermath in Japan

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned and scattered in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 12, 2011, a day after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the area.

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Killer tsunami in Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned on the ground on March 12, 2011, after being swept by tsunami in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country the previous day.

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Train-car collision in eastern Japan

Workers investigate the scene of a collision between a JR Joban Line train and a passenger car at a railroad crossing in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Kasama, eastern Japan, on Dec. 26, 2021. The driver of the car died, while there was no report of injury to any train passenger.

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'Return rush' of vacationers begins

TOKYO, Japan - Toll gates on the Joban Expressway in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, are packed with vehicles heading for Tokyo to return home on Jan. 2 after the year-end and New Year's holiday period. (Kyodo)

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in northeastern Japan

SOMA, Japan Kyodo - Work to resume traffic is under way on a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2021, following a landslide triggered by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on Feb. 13.

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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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Dismantled train station in tsunami-hit northwestern Japan town

The ruins of what used to be Tomioka Station on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are pictured on Feb. 5, 2015, after demolition of a tsunami-hit station building. Inset is a photo of the station before the 2011 disaster. The municipal office is to preserve ticket gates and station nameplates as legacy of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mural, soccer stars' footprints unveiled at Joban Expressway rest area

A female visitor places her foot over a footprint of a member of Japan's 2010 national soccer team displayed at the Naraha rest area along the Joban Expressway in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2015. The footprints and handprints, along with a mural drawn by local high school students in the summer of 2009 prior to the March 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant disaster, were unveiled ahead of the March 1 opening of remaining sections of the expressway that had been delayed by the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reopened stretch of Joban Expressway shown to press

East Nippon Expressway Co. shows the press a stretch of the Joban Expressway in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2015, before it opens to traffic on March 1. Construction of the 14.3-kilometer stretch between the Namie and Joban-Tomioka interchanges in the northeastern Japan prefecture had been delayed due to radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reopened stretch of Joban Expressway shown to press

An electronic board shows a count of 5.5 microsieverts per hour in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, along a portion of the Joban Expressway between the Namie and Joban-Tomioka interchanges in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Feb. 17, 2015. The stretch was shown to the press before it opens to traffic on March 1 after construction had been delayed due to radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in northeastern Japan

Work to resume traffic is under way on a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2021, following a landslide triggered by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on Feb. 13.

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Strong earthquake in northeastern Japan

A drone photo shows work to clear a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, under way on Feb. 14, 2021, following a landslide in the wake of the previous day's magnitude 7.3 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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Strong earthquake in northeastern Japan

A drone photo shows work to clear a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, under way on Feb. 14, 2021, following a landslide in the wake of the previous day's magnitude 7.3 earthquake in northeastern Japan.

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Aftermath of strong earthquake in northeastern Japan

Work to resume traffic is under way on a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 17, 2021, following a landslide triggered by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on Feb. 13.

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Killer tsunami in Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned on the ground on March 12, 2011, after being swept by tsunami in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Expressways jammed amid return rush from holiday exodus

TOKYO, Japan - Joban Expressway is jammed with cars in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. Expressways across the nation continue to be clogged amid the rush of travelers returning home from spending the ''Bon'' summer holidays out of town. (Kyodo)

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Expressways jammed amid return rush from holiday exodus

TOKYO, Japan - Joban Expressway is jammed with cars in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 14, 2010. Expressways across the nation continue to be clogged amid the rush of travelers returning home from spending the ''Bon'' summer holidays out of town. (Kyodo)

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Hawaiian-style spa park in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Joban Kosan Co. President Kazuhiko Saito (C) and hula dancers attend a press conference in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Saito said Spa Resort Hawaiians, a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, will partly reopen in October after suspending business following the massive earthquake in March and another quake in April. (Kyodo)

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Hula dancers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Saito (C), president of Joban Kosan Co., operator of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, answers reporters' questions at the tourism ministry in Tokyo on May 12, 2011. Saito and five hula dancers from the spa resort asked tourism minister Akihiro Ohata to help restore tourism in the city of Iwaki following the March 11 quake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The spa facility has remained closed since the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Japan quake aftermath

YAMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken on March 18, 2011, shows remains of a rail track of the JR Joban Line, destroyed by the March 11 quake-triggered tsunami, in Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Megaquake aftermath in Japan

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned and scattered in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 12, 2011, a day after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the area. (Kyodo)

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Killer tsunami in Japan

KITAKAMI, Japan - Train cars of the JR Joban Line are seen overturned on the ground on March 12, 2011, after being swept by tsunami in the town of Shinchi in Fukushima Prefecture after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 hit the country the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Cars pass by radiation dosimeter in Fukushima Pref.

NAMIE, Japan - Cars pass through the expressway gate in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, that connects Namie with the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on the Joban Expressway on Dec. 6, 2014, as the Yamamoto-Soma and Minamisoma-Namie sections opened the same day. The radiation dosimeter board is seen near the gate. (Kyodo)

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Horseback warrior appears in Joban Expressway ceremony

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A horseman of the traditional "Soma Nomaoi" festival adds zest to a ceremony in the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, as the northeastern Japanese town was fully connected with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened. (Kyodo)

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Ceremony to connect 2 towns on Joban Expressway

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held in the Miyagi Prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, to mark the connection of the northeastern Japanese town with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened. (Kyodo)

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JR station near Fukushima nuke plant on way to recovery

SENDAI, Japan - The weed-covered Tatsuta Station in the town of Naraha on the JR Joban railway line is seen in the upper photo taken on Sept. 26, 2012, while the photograph below taken on Sept. 4, 2014, shows the station looking normal as train runs between Tatsuta and Hirono Station, south of Naraha, resumed in June this year. (Kyodo)

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'Hula girls' company gives donation to quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - President Naomi Inoue (2nd from front L) of Joban Kosan Co., an operator of hot spring theme park Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, poses with "hula girls" and others for a photo commemorating the company's donation of revenue from a recent hula performance to the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Initiatives Foundation at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Remains of 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo taken on Oct. 9, 2018 shows a Joban Line train car heavily damaged after it was washed away in the March 2011 disaster in northeastern Japan, displayed at an East Japan Railway training center in Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe in Fukushima ahead of quake-tsunami anniversary

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (4th from L) attends a tape-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of a Joban Expressway interchange in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe in Fukushima ahead of quake-tsunami anniversary

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in a ceremony to mark the opening of a Joban Expressway interchange in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR East partially reopens line halted since 2011 nuclear disaster

A ceremony to mark the restart of train services of the Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture is held at Tomioka Station in the town of Tomioka on Oct. 21, 2017. East Japan Railway Co. partially reopened a section of the line that had been suspended since the March 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR East partially reopens line halted since 2011 nuclear disaster

A train runs past a temporary storage area where a number of large bags containing waste materials from demolition works are stacked in the northeastern Japan town of Tomioka on Oct. 21, 2017. East Japan Railway Co. partially reopened a section of the Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture that had been suspended since the March 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Japan Railway line suspended since 2011 tsunami partially reopens

People wave off trains leaving the new Shinchi station in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2016. A 23-kilometer section of East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line reopened five years and nine months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Japan Railway line suspended since 2011 tsunami partially reopens

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) attends an opening ceremony for the new Shinchi station in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2016. A 23-kilometer section of East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line reopened five years and nine months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Japan Railway line suspended since 2011 tsunami partially reopens

Photo taken Dec. 10, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a train running in Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A 23-kilometer section of East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line reopened five years and nine months after the March 2011 quake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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East Japan Railway line suspended since 2011 tsunami partially reopens

File photo taken in March 2011 shows overturned trains of East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line in Shinchi, Fukushima Prefecture, following a massive tsunami. A 23-kilometer section of East JR Co.'s Joban Line reopened on Dec. 10, 2016, five years and nine months after the quake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo