accident
March 29, 2013
Honda Motor Co. announced March 29 that it has developed an accident avoidance support system that will be bundled into a safety package with enhanced features, including side...
February 14, 2013
The rising number of deaths and accidents on Japan’s mountains in the winter involving inexperienced alpinists has prompted climbing experts to call for stricter regulations...
January 21, 2013
KYOTO--U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials took their investigations into problems with Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner to the headquarters of the plane's battery maker on...
January 18, 2013
High heat caused carbonization and deformities in a battery aboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft that made an emergency landing after smoke filled its body, the Japan...
August 20, 2012
The nuclear power industry has made behind-the-scenes payments to the tune of at least 3.18 billion yen ($40 million) to six local governments hosting nuclear-power related...
July 20, 2012
Osprey transport aircraft were involved in 58 “mishaps” between 2006 and 2011, U.S. military documents showed, as debate over their deployment to Japan intensified,...
July 18, 2012
WENZHOU, China--It's almost as if the rail disaster in this southeastern city that claimed 40 lives last July never happened.
July 12, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. faces a 1-trillion-yen ($12.5 billion) bill for cleaning up airborne radioactive contamination from the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power...
July 05, 2012
Lambasting both Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the prime minister’s office, the Diet’s task force investigating the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant recommended...
June 27, 2012
Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto, trying to quell an uproar over U.S. plans to deploy Osprey transport aircraft in Japan, said at least one of the two recent crashes overseas...
May 04, 2012
A chartered tour bus driver who caused an accident on the Kanetsu Expressway that killed seven and injured 39 passengers on April 29 reportedly told police he nodded off at the ...
May 01, 2012
Passengers who choose buses over other means of transportation have their own reasons. “My husband forgets my birthday/ On such a day/ I look at pamphlets of bus tours by...
April 03, 2012
At least two people were killed when strong winds and rain swept through central and eastern Japan on April 3, disrupting transportation services and causing structural damage.
March 12, 2012
BEIJING -- In the latest trouble to hit China's beleaguered railways, workers are scrambling to repair a new high-speed track that collapsed in central China due to heavy rain...
March 08, 2012
The March 11 tsunami that engulfed the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was horrific enough. But in the hours that followed, it became apparent that Japan had a major...
February 09, 2012
A metal piece from a U.S. military jet coming in for landing struck a moving car on a public road near the U.S. Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 8.
February 07, 2012
Attempts to find five workers missing in an underwater tunnel at a refinery in western Japan were suspended on Feb. 7 due to poor visibility that posed a risk to rescue divers, ...
January 20, 2012
An emergency battery was left unconnected to data transmission equipment at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which compounded the confusion in the early stages of the...
January 12, 2012
The Kobe District Court on Jan. 11 acquitted Masao Yamazaki , a former president of West Japan Railway Co. who was accused of professional negligence in connection with the...
November 19, 2011
SHANGHAI--The high death toll in the crash of an overloaded school minibus in western China was likely due to the fact that most of the seats had been removed, leaving the...