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JR West Sets Mid-December Finish for Amagasaki Crash Car Preservation Site With Family Visits Planned

The timeline follows renewed outreach to those who lost relatives in the 2005 derailment that left 106 dead.

Overview

  • JR West told bereaved families at a Nov. 8 meeting in Takarazuka that the preservation facility for the 2005 Amagasaki derailment cars will be completed in mid-December and that relatives will be guided to the site.
  • With the Tokyo Deaflympics opening on Nov. 15, Japan’s men’s and women’s deaf football teams held warm‑up friendlies in Fukushima as final preparations continued.
  • Wheelchair curling mixed‑doubles world champions Aki Ogawa and Yoji Nakashima said they are preparing for Milan–Cortina after being provisionally named to Japan’s Paralympic team.
  • Japan’s national rugby team lost 10–41 to world No. 3 Ireland in a test match played in Dublin.
  • Taiwanese media reported the re‑arrest in Taipei of an Iwate prefectural employee previously detained in June on suspicion of upskirt photography.