By TAKASHI OGAWA/ Staff Writer
October 21, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Trains for the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line are swamped in Nagano in October 2019 after being inundated by the Chikumagawa river caused by Typhoon No. 19. (Mari Endo)
If the Arakawa river in eastern Tokyo tops its banks in a flood, no less than 11 major lines of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) would wind up under water in a disaster, according to an estimate by the company. [Read More]
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