Quake-damaged part of expressway in Kumamoto to take at least 2 yrs to fix

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Repairs to a section of an expressway in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto damaged by a powerful earthquake in July will take at least two years, the road's operator said Monday.

The magnitude-7.1 temblor damaged a joint on one of the bridge girders of the Minami-Kyushu Expressway in Yatsushiro, creating a 1-meter height difference between sections of the road surface.