{"id":32311,"date":"2021-05-21T14:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/japan-bullet-train-driver-disciplined-for-leaving-controls-to-go-to-toilet"},"modified":"2021-05-21T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T05:19:12","slug":"japan-bullet-train-driver-disciplined-for-leaving-controls-to-go-to-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32311","title":{"rendered":"Japan bullet train driver disciplined for leaving controls to go to toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conductor, who was not qualified to drive the train, sat in the driver\u2019s seat during his three-minute absence, in breach of the rules<\/p>\n<p>A driver on one of Japan\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/sep\/30\/-sp-shinkansen-bullet-train-tokyo-rail-japan-50-years\">shinkansen<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/sep\/30\/-sp-shinkansen-bullet-train-tokyo-rail-japan-50-years\"> bullet trains<\/a> is facing disciplinary measures after he abandoned his cab to go to the toilet while the train was carrying passengers and travelling at 150km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old driver, who has not been named, reportedly had a stomachache and asked a conductor to take his place while he went to the toilet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/japan-bullet-train-driver-disciplined-for-leaving-controls-to-go-to-toilet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conductor, who was not qualified to drive the train, sat in the driver\u2019s seat during his three-minute absence, in breach of the rulesA driver on one of Japan\u2019s shinkansen bullet trains is facing disciplinary measures after he abandoned his cab to go &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,766,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-rail-transport","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32312,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32311\/revisions\/32312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}