400 passengers stranded on train amid heavy snow in northern Japan

Around 430 passengers were forced to stay the night aboard a local train stranded since Thursday evening amid heavy snowfall in Niigata Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast.According to rescue workers, five of the passengers -- a man in his 40s and four women in their teens and 20s -- felt unwell and the man was taken to a hospital. The train resumed service Friday morning about 15 hours after it became stranded, with many passengers exhausted after standing all night in crowded cars.More than half of the passengers on the four-car train on East Japan Railway Co.'s Shinetsu Line evacuated e…READ FULL ARTICLE