Dozens of tourists were injured Friday when their sightseeing bus veered off a road and tipped over, falling several meters before landing in a field in Shimizu, Hokkaido, local firefighters said. Police sources said 48 of the 49 people aboard were taken to hospitals after ...
Japan Coast Guard members may be best known for their heroic rescue work after shipwrecks and other maritime accidents featured in the popular movie series "Umizaru" ("Sea Monkeys"). Offscreen, coast guard maritime traffic controllers are the unsung heroes of safe cargo transportation, and by extension, ...
Even though 72 years have passed since the end of World War II, for Minoru Kawaida, 85, a little known event that happened on the morning of Feb. 6, 1944, remains at the forefront of his mind. Having studied until 1 a.m., he overslept that ...
A Michigan man died on a boating trip he was taking to pour his father's ashes into Lake Superior. Robert Louis, 59, died shortly after he and six other passengers fell out of their wooden kit boat near Au Train in the Upper Peninsula on ...
The wreckage of small plane that crashed Monday killing two people was found scattered over a wide area, indicating the aircraft likely broke into pieces midair, an air safety investigator said. The single-engine plane might have caught fire after fragmenting and then fell into a ...
Taiwan suffered a massive power blackout on Tuesday evening that hit businesses and residential homes, affecting close to 7 million households on the heavily industrialized island amid sweltering heat. The outage left millions of homes without power and hit offices and factories on the island ...
A huge oak tree crashed down on a popular religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira Tuesday, killing 13 people and injuring 49 others, officials said. The tree fell while a large crowd was gathered near the island's capital of Funchal as part of ...
A small plane crashed Monday in a mountainous area of Nara Prefecture, and the bodies of two people were found near its wreckage, the prefectural police said. They identified the two deceased as Ryoichi Tanaka, a 68-year-old company executive, and his wife, Sachiko, 55. The pilot ...
Eleven people died and more than 30 were injured Sunday as leisure activity surged nationwide over the Bon holidays, according to a tally compiled by Kyodo News. Many of the deaths occurred near water, including a 7-year-old boy from Aichi Prefecture who was found dead ...
Danish police said Sunday they had found nobody in the wreck of a submarine owned by an inventor charged with the manslaughter of a woman who had been on board — but added the vessel seems to have been deliberately sunk. Police have said that ...
Danish police hunting for a missing journalist said Sunday they searched a huge homemade submarine that sank last week, but no body was found. "The sub has been searched and there is nobody on board — neither dead nor alive," Copenhagen police homicide chief Jens ...
At least six people have been killed and dozens more are missing after a massive landslide swept two buses off a hillside into a deep gorge in mountainous northern India, an official said Sunday. The coaches had stopped for a tea break around midnight Saturday ...
