JR East said Wednesday three more bullet trains experienced malfunctions the previous day when shinkansen services were suspended for more than five hours between Tokyo and northeastern Japan due to a train failure.The trains are a new type of bullet train that debuted last year, and all four cases involved their auxiliary power units failing, the operator said. Further investigations are underway to see if the failures are linked.On Tuesday around 11:25 a.m., a train that was not in service came to a halt in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, after its auxiliary power unit failed and a mo…READ FULL ARTICLE
