The operator of the Kyushu bullet train service says safety inspections following the earthquake will likely continue until around 10 PM.
Kyushu Railway Company suspended Shinkansen bullet train operations between Hakata and Kumamoto stations after the quake hit around 6:10 PM.
Garnering silk and wool from animals; cotton, flax and jute from plants. We human beings are a resourceful, inventive bunch. Our ancestors fed mulberry leaves to silkworms, waited for them to pupate in cocoons, and then dissolved them in hot water and extracted long fibers that they fed into a spinning wheel.
Fleece is sheared from sheep, then scoured, carded, combed and spun into yarn. Teeny-tiny cotton fibers are picked from the plant, then stretched and twisted and made into thread. Linen is harvested, dried, threshed, retted, scutched and then spun. The resulting thread or yarn is woven or knitted and made into a textile.
An NHK survey shows that more than 40 percent of the people living around nuclear power plants across Japan have not yet received iodine tablets as a precaution in the event of a nuclear accident.
Radioactive iodine may be released into the environment during an accident at a nuclear plant. The substance could cause cancer when taken into the thyroid gland. Use of iodine tablets is a preventive measure.
With the Nintendo Switch offering up a bigger display and more powerful hardware, it made sense that many believed that the Switch was designed to replace not just the Wii U, but also potentially the 3DS due to the fact that it could be taken around just as easily as it could be plugged into a TV.
However Nintendo has continued to maintain its 3DS lineup of hardware and also games, and recently in an interview with Kotaku, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime explained why they are continuing to keep the 3DS around, suggesting that it was a more affordable device compared to the Switch, and that it would appeal to the younger crowd.
The 60 kWh Nissan Leaf is edging closer towards reality and if new reports prove to be accurate, it will be very affordable.
Toyota's motorsport expertise will benefit a production model that was previewed by the GR Super Sport Concept. 
Honda has dropped a new video of its record-setting front-wheel drive production car lap around Spa-Francorchamps where the circuit was lapped in just 2 minutes and 53.72 seconds.
Tremors believed to be aftershocks of Monday's major earthquake have rattled the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka.
The magnitude-6.1 quake hit before 8 AM on Monday in northern Osaka. On Japan's seismic intensity scale of zero to seven, it's categorized as a six-minus. The quake left 4 people dead and at least 376 injured.
"It's nothing personal, but really? This ... is ... not a pleasant place," I muttered to myself when I checked out the local library near my new apartment in a new ward.
Last year, I moved to an area in Tokyo that shall remain unnamed, except to say that it is a short bicycle ride to the Imperial Palace.
When you hear the word "Narita," the first association to pop up for most people is probably the airport. But what's second?
I asked four people (this is a really scientific survey), and they all said Naritasan or Shinshoji. So that must be it.
In the sixth episode of the 25th series, Top Gear pitted a bunch of crossovers against one another – the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, Volvo XC60, and Range Rover Velar – and took a closer look at the Alpine A110 sports car. 
The 2018 Nissan Leaf faces much stiffer competition than its predecessor, but then again, it promises to be better all around.
"Look at these tiny boxes--"kawaii!" I wonder what's inside?" shrieked one of the women, who looked to be in her mid-20s. "It says here that they're matchboxes," one of her friends said. "Matchboxes?" followed another. Then, in unison, multiple voices uttered, "heeehhh."
Come to think of it, long gone are the days when restaurants and bars had matchboxes for the taking placed next to cash registers.
My parents are not the outdoors type.
Growing up, I'd ask my mother about the names of flowers, and aside from the obvious ones such as roses and tulips, she would say, "I don't know. We'll check it later." Yet I don't remember ever doing any follow-up research.