Heavy rain in western Japan disrupts shinkansen bullet train services

Heavy rain in western and southwestern Japan continued to disrupt shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday, affecting travelers on the first day of a long weekend and prompting the weather agency to caution against further rainfall.All bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo were briefly halted in the morning. Services connecting Osaka and Tokyo also temporarily halted later in the day as rain gauges topped maximum safe levels in Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, operator Central Japan Railway said.Some travelers stranded at stations on the first day of the…READ FULL ARTICLE