Tokyo International News Agency

On May 6, 2026, a horrific accident occurred on the Ban-etsu Expressway in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, when a microbus carrying high school students from Niigata Prefecture crashed into a guardrail. The tragedy resulted in the death of a 17-year-old male student, who was thrown from the vehicle, and left 26 others with various injuries. The accident happened on the inbound lane. The bus struck roadside cushion drums and guardrails in succession; reports from the scene described a harrowing sight where a guardrail had actually pierced through the bus body. The passengers were students from Hokuetsu High School in Niigata City, believed to be traveling for an extracurricular club activity. The driver was a 68-year-old man from Tainai City, Niigata Prefecture. Social media was flooded with shock over the news. Many expressed grief at the severity of the damage, with comments like, "It's unimaginable that a guardrail could pierce a vehicle like that," and "Looki...

A hit-and-run incident occurred on Tsukiji Ohashi in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, where a luxury sports car, a Lamborghini, collided with a police car that had stopped to handle an accident, leaving two police officers inside seriously injured. The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the suspect, Changran Liu (41), a Chinese national, on suspicion of hit-and-run after he fled the scene. The incident took place in the early morning of February 8. At the time, two male police officers, aged in their 50s and 40s, were inside their patrol car on Tsukiji Ohashi, processing a minor collision between a passenger car and a taxi. It was then that the Lamborghini, driven by Liu, crashed into their vehicle from behind. The two officers inside the collided patrol car sustained serious injuries, including cervical spine fractures, requiring approximately one month for full recovery. Reports indicate that it was snowing in the area at the time of the accident, and the Lamborghini was not equipped ...