East Japan Railway Co. on Jan. 23 blamed human error for the power outage that stopped operations for about eight hours on the Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines on Jan. 16, inconveniencing about 670,000 commuters.

but the simple pressing of a button to release the safety device after construction was completed was not carried out on the Yamanote Line side.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16307027

1 Comment

  1. MagazineKey4532 on

    There seems to be more human errors these days. Maybe, people are getting more tired because of the economy.