2025-05-30 22:17:00
According to JR East, the Tokaido Line had suspended operations on both lines between Tokyo Station and Atami Station in Shizuoka Prefecture due to the fatal accident, but operations resumed at around 10:05 pm. The Shonan-Shinjuku Line, which had suspended operations on some sections due to the accident, has also resumed operations.
2025-05-30 21:31:00
Amid a series of fires at the Tokai No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture, a fire broke out in a cable installed underground in the reactor building on the morning of the 30th. The fire was soon extinguished and there was no impact on the outside.
2025-05-30 21:22:00
The Osaka District Public Prosecutors' Office has decided not to indict the dentist and director of a dental clinic in Sakai City, Osaka, who were referred to prosecutors on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in death two years ago after a 17-year-old male student at the time became hypoxic after receiving general anesthesia and subsequently died.
2025-05-30 21:02:00
A committee of experts has recommended that the seven people who died in Ishikawa Prefecture after the Noto Peninsula earthquake be recognized as disaster-related deaths. If the local government officially recognizes them, the death toll from the Noto Peninsula earthquake is expected to be 607.
2025-05-30 20:53:00
According to JR East, the Tokaido Line has suspended operations on both lines between Tokyo Station and Atami Station in Shizuoka Prefecture due to a fatal accident at Fujisawa Station in Kanagawa Prefecture. Operations are expected to resume around 9:30 pm. As a result, the Shonan-Shinjuku Line has also suspended operations on some sections.
2025-05-30 20:48:00
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission has recommended to the Financial Services Agency that it order the major general contractor Taisei Corporation to pay a penalty for insider trading, in which four employees of the company learned about construction defects in a high-rise building under construction while working, and sold their own company shares before the company made this public.
2025-05-30 20:35:00
The search for missing people following the Noto Peninsula earthquake had been suspended due to construction work to prevent secondary disasters, but will resume on June 2nd at the site in Nafune-cho, Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
2025-05-30 20:21:00
The Nagoya City Board of Education announced on the 28th that during a science class at a municipal elementary school in the city, a teacher gave incorrect instructions, causing ethanol to ignite, resulting in a female student suffering severe burns to her arm. The school did not call an ambulance, and the student's parents took her to the hospital, but the student is currently hospitalized for surgery.
2025-05-30 20:08:00
Ishikawa Prefecture has revised the areas expected to be inundated by floods in the Oku-Noto region, which suffered major damage from torrential rains last year, taking into account changes in the topography caused by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, and announced the results on the 30th. In some river basins in Suzu City, the area expected to be inundated has increased by more than four times compared to before.
2025-05-30 19:29:00
In response to the issue of postal workers not being asked to perform roll calls to check whether they had been drinking as required by law, the company revealed in April that there had been a total of 20 cases of employees drinking while on the job or commuting across the country.
2025-05-30 19:13:00
A subsidiary of JR East, which handles public relations and other tasks, announced that it had inflated personnel expenses for 85 projects commissioned by central government ministries and agencies. It received approximately 2.3 billion yen over a five-year period, and will return the amount once the fraudulent amount has been determined.
2025-05-30 18:55:00
Due to an increase in long-lasting heavy rainfall along the Tokaido Shinkansen line, JR Central has announced that it will revise the precipitation regulation values that are the criteria for suspending operations. Taking into account factors such as topography, the new regulation values have resulted in a reduction in the number and duration of suspensions of operations when applied to the past five years.
