West Japan Railway Company says it will remove some of its Shinkansen bullet trains from the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka as Typhoon Haishen approaches the area.
The company says it will relocate some of the about 30 Sanyo Shinkansen trains now in a rail depot in Fukuoka Prefecture, to other yards in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures in western Japan on Sunday.
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The operator of Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen line says it will cut the number of its train services linking Tokyo and Osaka by about 20 percent due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Central Japan Railway Company president Kaneko Shin made the announcement at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.
Japan's transport ministry will call on the operators of bullet train services to make their carriages more accessible for people using wheelchairs.
The ministry has decided to revise guidelines for public transportation, following discussions by a panel of officials from railway companies and advocacy groups for people with disabilities.