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Japan: Dashcam Captures Truck Crash on Expressway, Cargo Flies into Opposite Lane

Just after 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23, a medium-sized cargo truck collided with the central divider on the Tohoku Expressway in Kanuma City, Tochigi Prefecture, causing the gas cylinders it was carrying to fall and involved three vehicles traveling in the opposite lane. A dashcam in one of the vehicles on the opposite lane captured the accident, showing the truck kicking up a cloud of dust and its cargo flying across to the other side.

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Tornados hit Tochigi Pref.

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Photo taken in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, shows a factory, the walls and windows of which were partially blown off after tornados hit the prefecture on Sept. 4, 2013.

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Tanks for radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Work is under way at a plant in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on June 5, 2011, to transport tanks to store and dispose of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter.

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Tanks for radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Work is under way at a plant in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on June 5, 2011, to transport tanks to store and dispose of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter.

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6 children killed in crane truck accident

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators examine the site of a crane truck accident which killed six elementary school students in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 18, 2011. The truck ran into a group of children on their way to school.

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Man snatches woman from mountain lodge in Tochigi Pref.

KANUMA, Japan - Police said April 30 a knife-wielding man broke into a mountain lodge (in photo) in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, robbing a couple of about 10,000 yen before tying up the husband and abducting his wife.

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River Flooding In Eastern Japan Leaves Dozens Of Residents Stranded

IBARAKI, JAPAN - SEP. 10: A major river in eastern Japan breached its banks on Thursday following torrential rain, flooding hundreds of home and leaving at least one person missing and dozens still stranded. Police in Ibaraki Prefecture, where an emergency warning was issued Thursday, said a total of 40 people who were stranded after flood waters poured over the Kinugawa River have been rescued so far by helicopter, but that 50 are still waiting to be rescued from the roof of a supermarket. The river's banks were breached in Joso, about 45 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, after the river overflowed dikes at three spots, including Joso and Chikusei,

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Downpours cause flooding, landslides in Tochigi

A residential area is flooded following torrential rains in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture north of Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Downpours cause flooding, landslides in Tochigi

A search-and-rescue operation is under way in a residential area hit by landslides following torrential rains in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture north of Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hand-drawn goblins popular at Shinto shrine in eastern Japan

Atsushi Ikeguchi, a junior Shinto priest at the Furumine Shrine in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, draws a long-nosed goblin, the shrine's symbol, on a notebook brought by a visitor with a vermilion ink brush on April 20, 2015. The shrine is popular among visitors obsessed with a booming collection of shrine and temple seals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Various hand-drawn goblins shown at eastern Japan shrine

A board is filled with hand-drawn pictures of various red- and black-colored long-nosed goblins at the Furumine Shrine in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on April 20, 2015. The shrine is popular among visitors obsessed with a booming collection of shrine and temple seals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tanks for radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Work is under way at a plant in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on June 5, 2011, to transport tanks to store and dispose of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. (Kyodo)

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Tanks for radioactive water

TOKYO, Japan - Work is under way at a plant in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on June 5, 2011, to transport tanks to store and dispose of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. (Kyodo)

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Driver 'dozing off' before accident killing 6 kids

KANUMA, Japan - Masato Shibata, a truck driver arrested over a fatal accident in which six children died, walks out of a police station in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 19, 2011, before being sent to a prosecutors office. Shibata told the police that he fell asleep behind the steering wheel before his truck ran into elementary school students on their way to school the previous day. (Kyodo)

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6 children killed in crane truck accident

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators examine the site of a crane truck accident which killed six elementary school students in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, on April 18, 2011. The truck ran into a group of children on their way to school. (Kyodo)

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Chocolates made from konjac food launched

Photo taken Feb. 1, 2017, shows chocolates made from konjac food, which were launched by a restaurant operator in the city of Kanuma, northeast of Tokyo, prior to Valentine's Day. The product has drawn popularity locally due to its unique texture and sweetness. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chocolates made from konjac food launched

Photo taken Feb. 1, 2017, shows chocolates made from konjac food, which were launched by a restaurant operator in the city of Kanuma, northeast of Tokyo, prior to Valentine's Day. The product has drawn popularity locally due to its unique texture and sweetness. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scenes of Rio Paralympics

A tape showing the Chinese characters for "konjyo" (guts) is attached to a bicycle ridden by the Japanese pair Yurie Kanuma and Mai Tanaka in the women's blind tandem event at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro on Sept. 17, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Kanuma wins silver in women's time trial

Japan's Yurie Kanuma holds the silver medal she won in women's road cycling time trial for visually impaired athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 14, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Kanuma wins silver in women's time trial

Japan's Yurie Kanuma (L) rides with her guide Mai Tanaka during the women's road cycling time trial for visually impaired athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 14, 2016. Kanuma won silver. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abducted woman found safe

KANUMA, Japan - Miwako Tsubaki, 19, a technical school student (wearing a white hat, center), leaves the Kanuma police station July 22 in Tochigi Prefecture after she was found safe following her abduction in Maebashi in neighboring Gunma Prefecture by a man armed with a shotgun.