Miyagi prefectural police officers search among breakwater blocks for missing people on the coastline in the Iwaisaki district of Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, on Wednesday.

KOBE--The Kobe District Court on Wednesday found a former West Japan Railway Co. president not guilty over the 2005 train derailment on the JR Fukuchiyama Line that killed 106 passengers in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture. (Jan.12) [More...]

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