A toll road operator in Japan says it hopes to fully reopen a section of an expressway where hundreds of vehicles remain stranded in heavy snow.
East Nippon Expressway President Obata Toru held a news conference on Friday about the trouble on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast.
A Japanese expressway operator says its work to dig an underground tunnel likely caused a cave-in in a residential area of western Tokyo.
East Nippon Expressway announced interim findings of its probe into the matter on Friday.
The operator of the Japanese-owned bulk carrier that ran aground off Mauritius in late July has confirmed that the vessel has split in two.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said it confirmed at 2 p.m. on Saturday, local time, that the Wakashio had broken apart.
The operator of a cruise ship hit by the coronavirus outbreak says it will refund passengers of the doomed voyage of the vessel now docked at Yokohama Port.
The Diamond Princess operator's website says it will refund cruise fees as well as the costs of transportation, including planes and trains, and hotels used before and after the voyage.
The operator of the Ikata nuclear power plant in western Japan says that during maintenance of its No.3 reactor, a warning signal was emitted indicating trouble involving a fuel unit. But it added that no radioactive materials were released.
Shikoku Electric Power Company said workers were checking fuel units stored in a pool of the reactor in Ehime Prefecture on Monday when they received a signal that a fuel unit had accidentally fallen from a lift.