Bullet train services on some eastern and central Japan sections were temporarily halted Saturday following a fatal accident on a parallel track near Tokyo, their operator said.Services were suspended on the Tokyo-Sendai, Tokyo-Niigata and Tokyo-Nagano sections of the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen lines, respectively, between about 10:35 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according to JR East.A man believed to be in his teens or 20s jumped in front of a passenger train at Kita-Toda Station on the Saikyo Line in Saitama Prefecture, forcing the operator to check the safety of the parallel shinkans…READ FULL ARTICLE
