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SoraNews24
5 hours ago
- SoraNews24
Man dressed suspiciously warm for Japanese summer chased by helicopter and arrested for fraud
He was drawing too much heat. Just like every year, the past week or so has been as if someone flipped a switch from non-stop rain to relentless heat and summer is suddenly underway in Japan. They say this period of mid-rainy season heat is the worst for our health since the lingering humidity makes it harder for our bodies to properly expel the heat through sweating. ▼ The other summer months are hardly a picnic either though. Whether that's true or not doesn't change the fact that the past few days have been a muggy mess in much of Japan and people are doing whatever they can to avoid heat stroke. That is, everyone except one man, apparently, who was spotted by the Saitama Prefectural Police in Kuki City on 17 June. That morning the temperature was quickly rising but an officer patrolling the area found it odd that a man in front of Kuki Station was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and vest without even rolling up his sleeves to get a modicum of relief. Finding that suspicious, the officer decided to ask him some questions. However, the young man refused to answer any questions and tried to walk away but the officer followed him. The man then got into a taxi, changed to a train, and got on a Shinkansen bullet train for Nagoya to get away from the officer but by this time several other members of the Saitama Prefectural Police got involved, including a helicopter that was dispatched to follow him. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, police were checking surveillance footage to see where he had been prior to Kuki Station and cross-referenced it with other investigations. They found that he had used someone else's bank card that he acquired illegally to withdraw 500,000 yen (US$344) from an ATM at a convenience store in Kuki City that same morning. With that evidence in hand, an officer who was also aboard the bullet train arrested 27-year-old Sho Hara on the spot for his involvement in special fraud. Hara is denying the charges and told police, 'I know nothing.' Some readers of the news expressed amazement in comments that the officer was able to spot a criminal so well, while others took offense that wearing long sleeves in hot weather was considered suspicious behavior. 'Amazing instincts, lol!' 'They say you should wear long sleeves to keep the sun off your skin.' 'The officer has a detective's intuition.' 'But I wear long sleeves in the summer.' 'Maybe he was hiding tattoos.' 'What kind of world do we live in where a guy can't even wear long sleeves in the summer?' 'That cop deserves a huge bonus.' 'A nice Montbell Wickron is actually cooler than short sleeves in the sun.' 'He was probably just a bagman though. They still need to find the people behind it.' 'He probably has 'FRAUD MULE' tattooed on his arm.' 'I'm sure it wasn't just the long sleeves. He was probably acting strange too.' Indeed, it probably wasn't just the fact that he had long sleeves but how he was wearing them. As the police taught our reporter Mr. Sato when he was questioned by them for being suspicious several times, it's not a single behavior but a combination of them that sets off a cop's radar. A habitual long-sleeve wearer would do so with a certain aplomb, but this guy probably looked particularly uncomfortable as he was but made no effort to change his appearance. ▼ Here's a guy who knows how to pull off long sleeves in summer. As we've seen before, police have learned to look out for people who look uncomfortable in their own clothing, as bagmen for fraud schemes are often given clothing at the last minute in order to impersonate a lawyer, police detective, CEO, etc. Sometimes these clothes are the wrong size or simply don't match the wearer's sensibilities, which is a guarantee that an officer will want to ask you what you're doing. This attention to detail and the fact that they more or less recreated the final scene of Mission: Impossible to catch this guy, show that police in Saitama are not playing around when it comes to special fraud. Source: NTV News, Itai News Featured image: Pakutaso Insert images: ©SoraNews24 ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
Japan Times
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Japan Times
JR East to suspend E8 shinkansen trains for time being
East Japan Railway, or JR East, said Wednesday that it will suspend some services on the Yamagata Shinkansen train line, following malfunctions found on E8 series Shinkansen trains. The railway operator said that it will halt individual operations of E8 trains until the cause of the trouble is identified. On Tuesday, an out-of-service E8 train became unable to accelerate while traveling northward between Utsunomiya and Nasushiobara stations in Tochigi Prefecture, leading to a service suspension between Tokyo Station and Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture for about five and a half hours. JR East said that a power supply device malfunctioned, causing the motor to stop working. The company added that three more E8 trains — two in service and one out of service — suffered issues during the service suspension. The E8 series entered service last March. Nine trains are in operation, while two are undergoing test runs. The four trains that malfunctioned were the latest version, delivered in November last year and after.
2 days ago
- Automotive
JR East to Suspend E8 Shinkansen Trains for Time Being
News from Japan Society Jun 18, 2025 21:00 (JST) Tokyo, June 18 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, said Wednesday that it will suspend some services on the Tohoku and Yamagata Shinkansen train lines, following malfunctions found on E8 series Shinkansen trains. The railway operator said that it will halt individual operations of E8 trains until the cause of the trouble is identified. On Tuesday, an out-of-service E8 train became unable to accelerate while traveling northward between Utsunomiya and Nasushiobara stations in Tochigi Prefecture, leading to a service suspension between Tokyo Station and Sendai Station in Miyagi Prefecture for about five and a half hours. JR East said that a power supply device malfunctioned, causing the motor to stop working. The company added that three more E8 trains--two in service and one out of service--suffered issues during the service suspension. The E8 series entered service last March. Nine trains are in operation, while two are undergoing test runs. The four trains that malfunctioned were the latest version, delivered in November last year and after. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
NHK
3 days ago
- Automotive
- NHK
JR East: Power supply system malfunction likely caused E8 Shinkansen shutdown
East Japan Railway says it believes an hours-long stoppage of one of its newest Shinkansen trains was caused by a malfunction in the system that supplies electricity to the train, which caused its motors to shut down. During a test run on Tuesday, an E8 series Shinkansen train stopped between Utsunomiya and Nasushiobara stations in Tochigi Prefecture. As a result, services on the Tohoku Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Sendai had to be suspended for more than five hours. East Japan Railway found that the power supply failure may have disrupted the train's motor cooling function, which triggered the safety system designed to prevent overheating. Also on Tuesday, an E8 train that stopped at Koriyama Station in Fukushima Prefecture and another moving through Fukushima City experienced problems. Additionally, a malfunction occurred on a train that stopped at Oyama Station in Tochigi Prefecture. East Japan Railway says it has confirmed that all four E8 trains experienced power supply system problems. The company says there are no major differences between the systems that supply power in the E8 series and other Shinkansen series. It says the E8 series will remain out of service until the cause of the malfunction is determined.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
'Make in India' steel bridge spanning 100 metres launched over DFC for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train
In a key milestone for India's first bullet train project, a 100-metre-long steel bridge has been successfully launched over the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) near Bharuch in Gujarat, according to a statement from the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Monday. This is the eighth steel bridge completed in Gujarat for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. In total, 17 such bridges are planned for the state and 28 across the entire 508-km corridor. Weighing around 1,400 metric tonnes, the bridge stands 14.6 metres tall and 14.3 metres wide. It was fabricated in Trichy and transported to the site using specially designed trailers. The launch was executed using an 84-metre-long launching nose weighing about 600 metric tonnes. Also Read: 'Made in India' Chinese phones ring overseas 'The fabrication utilised approximately 55,300 Tor-Shear Type High Strength (TTHS) bolts with C5 system painting and elastomeric bearings designed for a 100-year lifespan,' NHSRCL said. The structure was assembled 18 metres above ground on temporary trestles and launched using two semi-automatic jacks, each with a 250-tonne capacity, and mac-alloy bars. Live Events To facilitate the launch, NHSRCL coordinated phased traffic blocks on the DFC tracks, ensuring safety while minimising disruption to freight operations. The milestone comes as the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor records another major achievement: the completion of 300 km of viaduct superstructure. This includes the recent launch of a 40-metre-long full-span box girder near Surat. 'Out of 300 km of superstructure, 257.4 km is constructed through Full Span Launching Method (FSLM) including 14 river bridges, 37.8 km through Span by Span (SBS), 0.9 km steel bridges (10 spans ranging from 60 to 130 m in 7 bridges), 1.2 km PSC bridges (20 spans ranging from 40 to 80 m in 5 bridges) and 2.7 km in station building,' the statement said. For the viaducts, 6,455 spans of 40 metres each were used in the FSLM section and 925 spans in the SBS section. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project, India's first bullet train line, is being built using Japanese Shinkansen technology and is expected to cut travel time between the two cities from over six hours to just about two. With inputs from ANI
