Bullet trains restart in east Japan 20 hours after power outage

Bullet train services in eastern and central Japan resumed Wednesday, some 20 hours after a power outage caused hundreds of the shinkansen services to and from Tokyo to be canceled the previous day, affecting some 120,000 people.All but two bullet train services on the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku lines have been operating normally since the morning, East Japan Railway Co. said.The company completed restoration work shortly past 4:30 a.m., having removed a shinkansen train that lost power at around 10 a.m. Tuesday while running in Saitama Prefecture, where a slackened overhead electrical wir…READ FULL ARTICLE