A freight train has gone off the tracks in southwestern Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture. Services on the Kagoshima Main Line remain partially suspended.

While traveling at approximately 315 kph, two carriages of a Shinkansen running between Furukawa and Sendai stations in Miyagi Prefecture suddenly decoupled, bringing the train to an emergency stop.

A 24-year-old company employee who lives in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, boarded a bullet train bound for Tokyo from Fukushima Station. She said she had to spend an hour and 30 minutes to reach her ...