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 ...
The head and operations manager of a charter bus company will be referred to prosecutors this week over a crash last year that killed 15 people, investigative sources said Monday. The 55-year-old president of Tokyo-based ESP and its 48-year-old former manager are suspected of professional ...
Scrapping of Hiroshima's Sanko Line highlights transport ills in shrinking Japan
It was just after the Sanko Line marked its 40th anniversary when West Japan Railway Co. informed Kazutoshi Masuda, mayor of Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, that it would seek a more "sustainable" public transportation system. "I knew it meant that the Sanko Line would be scrapped," ...
The Upper House passed a revision to the road transportation law on Friday that allows the fine for safety violations involving chartered buses to be hiked 100-fold to ¥100 million ($875,000). The revision follows a ski bus accident in Nagano Prefecture earlier this year that ...
Efforts by a city in Iwate Prefecture to improve local bus services via customer input on cleverly designed questionnaires is garnering positive feedback on social media sites. The city of Takizawa has been distributing questionnaires that resemble bingo cards to passengers in the hope of ...
Tougher rules sought for charter buses based on fatal Nagano crash
Responding to a fatal ski bus crash in Nagano Prefecture last winter, the government said Tuesday it wants to make charter bus companies renew their business license every five years. Other change in the road transportation law sought by the government would raise the maximum ...
Passenger hits brakes on Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line bus after stroke disables driver
A 64-year-old bus driver had a stroke and partially fell unconscious while driving on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line Highway in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday, hitting a car ahead of him and straying onto the median strip, police and bus operators said Thursday. The bus averted ...
Driver hurt after deadheading bus steers wild course, slams into apartment building
A bus crashed into an apartment building in Koganei, Tokyo, Thursday after knocking down a traffic light and a bus stop sign, police said. The 49-year-old bus driver was injured. No passengers were on the bus, which left the bus shed and was heading to ...
A tourist bus slammed into a tree along the road in Kumamoto Prefecture, injuring 20 South Korean passengers on board, police said. The injuries were not life-threatening and the passengers all remained conscious, they added. The police said the bus had been driving on Route 212 ...
Blast targeting bus near Shiite shrine in Damascus kills six
A bomb tore apart a bus thought to be carrying Lebanese Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding 19 in a rare attack at the center of the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness and local media said. A ...
Kintetsu Bus Co. unveiled to the media on Wednesday a double-decker bus tour service of the city of Osaka that will start July 10. The tour, the first featuring a double-decker, will give visitors a convenient way to explore the city's landmarks, including Japan's tallest ...
Tour bus offers solution to foreign tourists' gripes
A free tour of Tokyo by double-decker bus that covers such landmarks as Roppongi Hills, the scramble crossing in Shibuya and the National Diet Building kicks off Wednesday. Designed for foreign visitors, the tours are in English and the bus, dubbed Visit Shibuya, itself is ...
