In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of East Japan Railway Co.'s Shin-Etsu Honsen line between Yokokawa Station in
Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, a mountain resort town in Nagano Prefecture, which was retired in 1997 due to the opening of the Nagano Shinkansen bullet train line.
Raysum Golf and Spa Resort,
Annaka, Gunma Prefecture.
(
Annaka, Gunma Prefecture and Yokohama, Kanagawa Pref., Japan) said its consolidated investment will total 2-billion yen ($18.5-million) for the current financial year, up 2.9-fold over a year earlier.
Oshiba, who comes from
Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, is unemployed and has no fixed address, police said.
Three people were killed in a head-on collision between a passenger car and a large truck in
Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, on Wednesday afternoon, police said.