Japanese Heavy snow hit western was cold event of failure outage Shinkansen

 BEIJING, Jan. 17, according to Kyodo news agency Xinhua reported, by the strong cold front over the Japanese archipelago, the impact of the Japan Sea side of western Japan near the early morning of 17 Heavy snow.

Japan's meteorological department forecast
snowfall in some areas may be as high as 50 mm. As in many areas will experience strong winds, waves Meteorological Agency has issued a warning.

JR Tokai
According to the Japanese company said, subject to the new Osaka Hamamatsu snow between the effects of Tokaido Shinkansen line up and down flights originating from the same day in some of the implementation of slow down sections.

According to another report, JR East Japan's northeast operations, Joetsu, Nagano, Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen 5 of 17 early operation management system failure, causing temporary outages across the board about 75 minutes. 5 Shinkansen at 9:38 resume operations, but the timetable has been greatly disrupted.