Six railway operators in the Tokyo metropolitan area say they will not run services late into the night on New Year's Eve and early on New Year's Day due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The companies include East Japan Railway and Tokyo Metro.
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.
Toyota just revealed the 2021 Toyota Sienna and 2021 Toyota Venza, both of which are hybrids. At a virtual press conference for the media, several Toyota designers went into greater detail about the new Sienna's design. As it stands, minivans don't sell that well compared to their crossover and SUV rivals. Toyota thinks it has an answer to this problem with the redesigned Sienna.
"It's combining the best aspects of a minivan with an SUV," says Bob Carter, Executive VP of Sales for Toyota.
Train and bus companies in the Tokyo area say they are operating as usual on Wednesday despite a state of emergency declaration.
Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo made the declaration on Tuesday for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures, saying it will be effective through May 6.