Three people were killed and hundreds injured on Monday after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country’s second-largest city of commerce.
The earthquake also knocked over walls and set off fires, as per news on AP.
The magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck the area early Monday damaged buildings and left many homes without water or gas.
The quake also grounded flights in and out of Osaka, and paralysed traffic and commuter trains most of the day.
By the evening, bullet trains and some local trains had resumed operation, with stations swollen with commuters trying to get home, many of them waiting in long lines.
An exodus of commuters who chose to walk home filled sidewalks and bridges.
A 9-year-old girl was killed by a falling concrete wall at her school, and the two other fatalities were men in their 80s.