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Road Divider May Have Contributed to Disastrous Bus Crash

Posted by HCN on Monday, August 22, 2022,
Post bus rollover footage found online. On an expressway in Nagoya, Japan, near Tokyo, within about the past day, a bus with passengers overturned in broad daylight, and caught fire. It seems those dividers, that ones that are used to separate lanes of traffic with an object on top of lane markings, augment and other purposes, and have a slope from the base up towards the vertical main portion, may have had something to do with the rollover.
From an engineering standpoint, if a tire clips the ...
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Middle of April Earthquakes in Japan

Posted by HCN on Friday, April 15, 2016,

Earthquakes have stricken the southern island land ass region of Japan repeatedly within the past several days.
Based on laws of momentum and taking the safe side, prudent planning is to stay prepared for the possibility of more earthquake or seismic activity at least for the next few days.



Locales of epicenter:

Kumamoto-shi

Ueki

The above does not include other seismic activity or minor earthquakes which ay have occurred in addition to these and might not have been as popularly reported.

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Typhoon Neoguri Hit

Posted by HCN on Wednesday, July 9, 2014,
Typhoon named Neoguri has hit Japan, so far primarily the area of Okinawa.

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Abduction and Scud Situation Unfolds

Posted by HCN on Tuesday, July 1, 2014,
See:

Japan, North Korea hold talks over missing Japanese


at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/01/japan-north-korea-hold-talks-over-missing-japanese/

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Man-yi Typhoon-Tropical Storm in Japan Causes Destruction and Mass Evacuations

Posted by HCN on Monday, September 16, 2013,
Key locations affected by the typhoon which apparently softened to some degree and transitioned to a 'tropical storm':

  • Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture
  • Hokkaido
  • Honshu
U.S. bases in Japan have been included in reports concerning the storm conditions 

Sources:



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