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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:33 pm
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September 6, 2007
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A steam locomotive charges powerfully down a valley in Yubari, Hokkaido, on Monday, for the first time since December 1975, leaving behind a trail of smoke and filling the valley with the sound of its whistle. |
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:36 pm
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| Quote: | Rail firms ordered to improve safety checks
The Yomiuri Shimbun
In response to the fatal 2005 derailment of the JR Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in which 107 people were killed, the Construction and Transport Ministry on Tuesday instructed railway companies nationwide to improve internal reporting from train crews to each company in order to analyze and make use of problems and mistakes that should be acknowledged as safety concerns even though the events did not lead up to an accident.
It was the first such ministry instruction to railway companies, though air carriers have already launched the same approach, utilizing analyses of mistakes or problems, in order to "nip accidents in the bud."
Specifically, the instruction requires train companies not to discipline crews who report mistakes or problems to their companies. It also requests the information be shared via an objective analysis using physical data. Additionally, the ministry calls for banning crews from jotting down radio contacts between traffic control supervisors and crews to avoid unnecessary distractions--a subject of discussion after the 2005 derailment.
In its final report issued in June, the ministry's Aircraft and Railway Accidents Commission criticized West Japan Railway Co. for administrating a punitive retraining program, suspecting that the threat of the program distracted the driver of the derailed train from his work. The report asked the ministry and railway companies to take a fresh approach to revising measures to check and analyze mistakes.
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Bungeishunju fined 1 mil. yen
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday ordered Bungeishunju Ltd. to pay 1 million yen in compensation to two railroad workers' unions in connection with an article that appeared in the publisher's weekly magazine about the fatal derailment on the JR Fukuchiyama Line in 2005.
The Japan Confederation of Railroad Workers' Unions and West Japan Railway Co.'s labor union filed the libel suit against the Tokyo-based publishing company, claiming a Shukan Bunshun article on the 2005 accident had defamed them.
Presiding Judge Kunio Mizuno ruled part of the article, which stated that the two labor unions had manipulated the media, had no basis in fact.
Bungeishunju immediately announced its intention to appeal to a higher court.
(Sep. 6, 2007) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:54 am
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Found at: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22377741-5005961,00.html
| Quote: | Typhoon crashes into Tokyo
September 07, 2007 04:14am
A STRONG typhoon crashed into the Tokyo region overnight, bringing downpours and violent gusts that killed one person, injured dozens more and disrupted hundreds of flights, officials and reports said.
Its violent winds sweeping some people off their feet, Typhoon Fitow slammed into Kanagawa prefecture, just south of the capital, shortly before 2.30am (3.30am AEST).
The typhoon, with 121km/h winds near its centre, was forecast to slowly work its way across the Tokyo region overnight.
Its power was just a notch below Typhoon Tokage, Japan's deadliest typhoon in a quarter century that killed dozens of people in October 2004.
Fitow, named after a flower found in Micronesia, was so strong that lost umbrellas were flying on the streets of Tokyo, where people jostled to get taxis home fearing disruption to public transportation.
Japanese media said one man in his 70s died in Nagano prefecture north of Tokyo as he went outside to clear trees and was struck by another tree.
Kyodo News in a tally said at least 31 other people were injured including a 93-year-old woman who broke both her legs after being knocked off her feet by strong winds.
In Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, a window glass on the Sobu line train was broken by the strong wind and injured seven passengers.
In Shizuoka prefecture southwest of Tokyo, two men in a car suffered slight injuries when their car was hit by a tidal wave that broke the windscreen, a local official said.
Television footage showed towering waves along the Pacific coast and swollen rivers in other parts of mainland Japan.
Fitow was moving north at 20km/h.
The strong wind downed electricity wires, causing blackouts to 25,000 household in central Japan, while regional authorities urged dozens of households in central Yamanashi and Gunma prefectures to evacuate.
At Tokyo's Haneda airport, at least 174 flights, almost all scheduled to take off or land in the evening, were cancelled.
Railway services were partially suspended in provinces north of Tokyo due to rain, while coastal expressways were partially closed because of high waves.
"Given the slow speed of the typhoon, we have to brace ourselves for heavy rainfall and strong winds that last for a long time," which increases chances of landslides and flooding, an agency official said.
Typhoons hit Japan in July and August, killing several people and injuring dozens. |
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:48 pm
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| Quote: | 150 rocks left on tracks around Koshien Station in Nishinomiya
NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo -- About 150 rocks were found on railway tracks near Koshien Station on the Hanshin Railway Line in the predawn hours of Saturday, police and railway company officials said.
The incident delayed three trains on the line, including the first train, by up to 14 minutes, inconveniencing about 50 passengers.
Local police suspect that someone deliberately laid the stones on the tracks and are investigating the case on suspicion of endangering railway traffic.
At about 3:50 a.m. on Saturday, an alarm system went off at the railway's traffic control center in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, indicating trouble with railway switches at Koshien Station in Nishinomiya, investigators said.
Station workers examined the tracks and found stones stuck in one of its switches. They subsequently found 150 stones on the tracks, most of them stuck in three railway switches. (Mainichi)
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:17 am
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070913p2a00m0na015000c.html
| Quote: | Train services resume on line hit hard by quake in Niigata
A train travels near Omigawa Station on the JR Shinetsu Line.
KASHIWAZAKI, Niigata -- Services on the JR Shinetsu Line that had been suspended between Kashiwazaki and Kakizaki since the area was hit by a powerful earthquake in mid-July were fully resumed on Thursday.
The first westbound train left Kashiwazaki Station at 7 a.m. as scheduled, but was forced to travel at reduced speeds to check the condition of the track. It arrived at Kakizaki at 7:35 a.m., about 15 minutes behind schedule.
Services on the 18.7 kilometer section had been suspended since tracks were badly damaged by the earthquake. An 80-meter long stretch of track near Omigawa Station was buried under a landslide. (Mainichi)
September 13, 2007 |
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:18 am
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070913p2a00m0na002000c.html
| Quote: | Woman has leg trapped between bullet train and platform at Nagoya Station
NAGOYA -- A woman passenger was seriously injured when she had her leg sandwiched between a bullet train and a platform at JR Nagoya Station, police said.
The 48-year-old woman from Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, got off a Tokyo-bound Shinkansen bullet train at Nagoya Station shortly before noon on Wednesday.
As the bullet train was leaving the station her left leg got caught between a carriage and the platform. A station worker noticed the accident and pushed an emergency stop button, bringing the train to a halt.
The woman sustained serious injuries that will take about a month to heal.
Some 21 bullet trains were delayed due to the accident. (Mainichi)
September 13, 2007 |
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:19 am
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20070913p2g00m0dm019000c.html
| Quote: | All aboard, the night soil train!!!
No matter what the workplace, smeg happens, to put things crudely. But not always in such a literal way as on a Kansai area train late last month. Or, perhaps it does, according to Weekly Playboy (9/24) and AERA (9/17).
Early on the morning of Aug. 31, a diarrhea-stricken conductor on a JR Fukuchiyama Line train worried that taking a toilet break would cause timetable delays, so he squatted down in a darkened corner of the driver's compartment and took a load off his mind. And his body, as it turned out.
Although the compartment was cleaned up when it reached the Tsukaguchi Station terminal, the reek of the conductor's crap was so vile it wafted throughout the adjacent carriage, so West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) officials cancelled the train.
"It wasn't as though he'd sprayed it all over the compartment," a JR West spokesman tells Weekly Playboy. "It was in a lump in one place."
Speaking to AERA, the spokesman says, "We wonder why he went so far." The spokesman adds that company employee guidelines advise staff of their right to take toilet breaks provided they let a control center know of their need. In fact, company regulations say that whenever an employee whizzes off, so to speak, the announcement to passengers should be that the "employee must attend to urgent business" and apologize for the delay.
JR West says there are "several" times a year when drivers or conductors cause train delays because they need to relieve themselves.
Subway drivers have similar struggles.
"You've got no idea how we keep ourselves under pressure to perform our duty and staying on schedule affects our bowel movements. I think the conductor performed his duty by staying on the train right to the end," a driver on the Tokyo Metro tells Weekly Playboy. "I've never heard of anybody in my workplace doing it in their pants while on the job, but I've heard about loads of times when they came close."
But it's not just commuter train employees who have to fight the battle of the bowels. On bullet trains, employees receive plastic bags to take into their cabins just in case they desperately need to go.
"They haven't got 'JR' or anything stamped on them. They're just the normal plastic bags like those you'd get at a supermarket," the JR West spokesman tells AERA.
Bags are also apparently useful for pilots, though All Nippon Airways refuses to tell the women's weekly what really happens because it's "top secret," according to an airline spokesman.
Airline expert Issei Hideshima tells AERA the secrecy is "a terrorism countermeasure. Pilots use a certain method to let flight attendants know they need to go and once they get the all clear they can then go to the toilet."
Chopper pilots, who can't rely on a co-pilot or auto pilot, don't have it so easy when they need a whiz in their whirlybirds.
"When we absolutely have to, we use a barf bag," a veteran helicopter pilot tells AERA. "Some pilots used to use plastic bags, then open their window and drop them out into the sea when they were filled."
Taxi drivers also have to struggle when they're busting.
"No matter how much you want to go to the toilet, if there's somebody waiting with their arm outstretched and calling for you, you've got no choice but to stop and pick them up. That's why in this job there's always a danger of soiling your undies," a 71-year-old cab driver tells Weekly Playboy. "I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but I've smeg my pants on the job before. That's why I always carry a spare set of undies with me."
Bathroom accessory manufacturer Lion found itself with a hit on its hands back in 2003 when it released Stopper, a medicine that combats diarrhea. Salarymen in their droves sent Stopper sales skyrocketing in an effort to ward off any possible supernovas of the skids. Stopper has also received support from crimefighters.
"I'm a police officer whose job is to escort suspects to court, so I can't walk off the job no matter how much my stomach is rumbling," AERA quotes a satisfied police officer writing in a letter of thanks sent to Lion. "Stopper has also stopped any suspects from making a clean getaway."
Kikuo Okano, a Tokyo doctor, says bowel problems are something everybody should address.
"Stress-related bowel troubles are a common feature among salarymen in today's modern society. Problems with the toilet are not something that should be treated lightly and holding on for too long could actually cause people to fall unconscious," the doctor tells Weekly Playboy. "Drivers in particular are really susceptible. Their job involves them taking people's lives into their hands, so in this (Fukuchiyama Line) case, it's much better that the conductor did his business on the spot and protected the safety of passengers rather than holding on and possibly fainting."
So, did the smeg hit the fan because the conductor "dropped his kids off" in the compartment? Apparently not, according to JR West.
"It was the result of a physical occurrence, so the conductor will not be punished, but let off with just a warning," the JR West spokesman tells Weekly Playboy, adding that the conductor made a rapid recovery once he had delivered his bundle. "He came back from the toilet that morning and rode for a while on trains being sent to the depot before returning to regular work after 10 a.m. He was back to normal work the day after it happened and every workday since." (By Ryann Connell)
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:25 pm
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070915p2a00m0na002000c.html
| Quote: | Elderly driver takes accidental drive down train tracks in Hokkaido
IWAMIZAWA, Hokkaido -- An elderly man was spotted driving his car down a set of railway tracks here after mistakenly believing it was a road, police said.
At about 9:30 p.m. on Friday, a resident spotted the car traveling down the JR Hakodate Line tracks in the Ochanomizu district of Iwamizawa, and alerted police, who told him to push the emergency stop button at a nearby crossing.
When officers arrived at the scene, the car came to a stop. Seven officers managed to push the vehicle off the tracks. Nobody was injured.
A limited express train was scheduled to pass the scene just six minutes after the emergency stop button was pressed, according to Hokkaido Railway Co.
The driver turned onto the tracks from a crossing, and had driven about half a kilometer by the time he was stopped, investigators said.
Services on the line were suspended for about 75 minutes following the incident, delaying numerous trains by up to 74 minutes and inconveniencing some 1,500 passengers. (Mainichi)
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:02 pm
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Found at: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070918TDY02007.htm
| Quote: | Aichi police officer hit by Nagoya subway
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A 46-year-old inspector of the Aichi Prefectural Police was hit and seriously injured by a subway train at Shigahondori Station on the Nagoya City-run Meijo Line in Kita Ward, Nagoya, at around 11:25 p.m. Sunday, police said.
The inspector was found lying face-up between the rails, the police said, and was in serious condition, suffering a broken left leg. About 100 passengers who were on the train were not injured, according to the police. The six-car train bound for Nagoyadomumae Yada Station stopped after the accident for eight minutes at Shigahondori Station, delaying 12 trains and affecting a total of 800 passengers, said the police.
The 32-year-old train operator saw the inspector but was not able to brake in time.
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| Quote: | Cop hit by subway train while sleeping on tracks
NAGOYA -- A police officer was seriously injured after being hit by a subway train while sleeping on the tracks here late Sunday night, police said.
The driver of a six-carriage train on the Meijo Line of the Nagoya Municipal Subway System spotted a man lying face-up on the tracks at Shiga-Hondori Station in Kita-ku, Nagoya, at about 11:25 p.m., and applied the emergency brakes, local police said.
The train stopped after hitting the man. He suffered a broken left leg and remains in serious condition, according to investigators.
The man has been identified as a 46-year-old inspector at Aichi Prefectural Police. The inspector, who previously belonged to the force's Security Bureau, is now on loan to the prefectural government's disaster countermeasures division. (Mainichi)
September 18, 2007 |
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:53 pm
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| Quote: | Man remains in critical condition after jumping in front of train in Tokyo
A man remains in critical condition after jumping in front of an oncoming train on the JR Chuo Line on Tuesday afternoon in an apparent suicide bid, police said.
At about noon on Tuesday, a man jumped in front of a special rapid train bound for Tokyo from Takao that was passing Asagaya Station in Suginami-ku, Tokyo, local police said. He was rescued and rushed to a hospital where he remains in critical condition.
Services on the Chuo Line were temporarily suspended between Tokyo and Takao stations following the accident. (Mainichi)
September 18, 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:37 am
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JR East to try new warning setup
Train accidents will automatically trip emergency signals
Kyodo News
East Japan Railway Co. has developed a system that enables trains to automatically radio warnings to each other when a serious accident occurs, company officials said Tuesday.
An E233 train is pictured at JR Tokyo Station in December 2006. East Japan Railway Co. will place a new automatic emergency warning system in this type of train. KYODO PHOTO
Currently, when an accident occurs train crews must push a button to send an emergency signal, which forces all other trains running within a 1-km radius to stop operating.
The new system was developed because the crew on the train in the 2005 fatal derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, failed to activate the emergency warning system.
It will be introduced in the new E233 commuter trains on JR East's Chuo and Keihin-Tohoku lines by the end of March 2008, becoming the first such system in the country.
In the 2005 derailment, which involved a West Japan Railway Co. train, the conductor failed to send an emergency stop signal because the derailment caused a power failure to the train and he did not know how to use the backup power supply system.
Though no collision occurred with another train, an express train approached as close as 100 meters to the derailed train. The accident killed 107 people, including the driver.
"The crews can also be injured in an accident" or otherwise incapacitated, a JR East official said. "By introducing the system, nearby trains can be stopped without failure."
A JR West official said, "We would like to positively consider developing" such a system.
In JR East's system, two devices to automatically send emergency stop signals will be placed in each train's first and last cars.
They incorporate sensors to measure acceleration that can detect the occurrence of an accident, such as a derailment or collision, the officials said.
It will take about 0.09 second for the devices to activate after detecting an accident. Even if the first car of the train crashes, the device in the last car will send an emergency stop signal.
No power loss will prevent the device from activating, because the emergency radio system of JR East trains automatically switches to a backup power supply when a power failure occurs.
JR East conducted a test run from November to January and confirmed that the device can operate normally in most of the trains running in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The company plans to install the device in train cars other than E233 commuter trains in the future.
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| Quote: | Osaka train departs with mother clinging to baby stroller stuck in door
The station platform where the accident occurred is pictured in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Thursday.
SAKAI, Osaka -- A train departed from a station here while a 38-year-old mother was trying to disembark with her infant son in a stroller, leaving the stroller stuck between the doors and dragging the woman for 10 meters along the platform.
The accident occurred at Hagihara Tenjin Station on the Nankai Koya Line at about 10:10 a.m. on Thursday. Officials said the doors clamped shut on the stroller as the woman was trying to get off the second carriage of the train.
The 1-year-old boy in the stroller was not injured, but the 38-year-old woman suffered light injuries to her right knee after she was dragged along the platform. Osaka Prefectural Police are investigating the incident on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury.
Officials said the handle of the stroller had got caught between the doors. The woman was apparently dragged along the station platform because she was clinging to the handle.
Passengers on the train realized what had happened and sounded an emergency button, and the driver applied the emergency brakes to stop the train after it had traveled for about 140 meters.
Police and railway officials said there had been one driver and one conductor on the train. The conductor had reportedly failed to notice anything was amiss.
The train came to a halt about 70 or 80 meters beyond the end of the station platform, with the stroller hanging out in the air. A person nearby picked the baby up from the stroller.
Railway officials said that when objects become stuck in the doors of Nankai trains leaving a gap of three centimeters or more, an indicator shows that the door is not properly closed and the train is prevented from moving forward. (Mainichi)
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:56 am
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| Quote: | Man sprays tear gas on train after row with another passenger
Officers examine the train at JR Yokohama Station.
YOKOHAMA -- Some 19 people were injured when a passenger on a JR Tokaido Line train sprayed tear gas in a carriage on Wednesday night after getting into an argument with another man, police said.
The Caucasian passenger had blond hair and was wearing black jeans. He was about 180 centimeters tall.
Twelve men and five women underwent treatment at a hospital after suffering sore eyes and throats. Their condition is not serious.
Kanagawa police are searching for the man, who fled the train at Yokohama Station, on charges of inflicting injuries. (Mainichi)
September 20, 2007 |
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| Quote: | Dumped bicycles to be adopted for commuters to use for free in Nagoya
Bicycles left in front of JR Nagoya Station in the city's Nakamura-ku.
NAGOYA -- Nagoya University graduate school plans to offer commuters free use of dumped bicycles to ride between three areas in Nagoya in an effort to help cut the number of bikes left in the city.
The number of bicycles left in Nagoya reached about 30,000 last year.
Professor Tsuneo Takeuchi at Nagoya University graduate school of environmental studies and three other members plan to set up three bicycle "stations" in Nagoya. Bicycles dumped in the city will be adopted for commuters to ride between the stations.
"We hope our project will help improve traffic conditions in Nagoya by utilizing environment-friendly bicycles," one of the four said.
They also plan to have advertising on the bicycles to help cover costs.
Despite the optimism for the project, there are fears that users might dump the bicycles between the stations or steal them. Another potential problem is whether the group can meet demand for the bicycles. (Mainichi)
September 19, 2007 |
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:27 pm
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Found at: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070921p2a00m0na018000c.html
| Quote: | Another woman says she was dragged along platform by train in Osaka
OSAKA -- The operator of a train that departed with a mother still clinging to a baby stroller stuck between the train doors on Thursday, dragging her along the platform, is in negotiations with another woman who says she was dragged along by a train when her bag got caught, company officials said.
The woman in her 50s, a resident of Sennan, Osaka Prefecture, said that she was seriously injured after being dragged along by a Nankai Electric Railway Co. train that departed after her bag got caught between the doors.
A train conductor found the woman at the side of the railway tracks beyond the end of the platform at Tarui Station on the Nankai Main Line in Sennan on May 1. She had a broken leg and broken lower back bone.
Company officials said they had not been able to confirm that the woman was dragged along by the train, but they have paid for her medical expenses, since the accident occurred in an area controlled by the railway. They remain in negotiations with her over compensation for the accident. (Mainichi)
September 21, 2007 |
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