By TOMOMI TERASAWA/ Staff Writer
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 JST
The site of the 67-vehicle pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway in Minakami, Gunma Prefecture, on Dec. 27, seen from an Asahi Shimbun helicopter. (Masaaki Kobayashi)
All lanes on the Kan-etsu Expressway linking Tokyo and Niigata Prefecture were open for traffic on Dec. 28, two days after 67 vehicles were involved in a fatal pileup in Gunma Prefecture.
East Nippon Expressway Co. (NEXCO East) reopened the outbound lanes of the expressway between the Tsukiyono and Minakami interchanges in Gifu Prefecture at 1 p.m. on Dec. 28.
The accident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 26 near the Minakami IC on the outbound lanes in Minakami, Gunma Prefecture.
Two people died, 26 others suffered injuries, and 20 of the vehicles were burned.
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