MINAMI-ASO, Kumamoto Prefecture--Five years after a series of earthquakes took out the Aso Ohashi bridge here, its replacement opened on March 7, capping the reconstruction of roads severed in the ...

But no repair work is in sight for the Kario highway, which is administered by the Aso city government in the eastern part of Kumamoto Prefecture. The 5.7-kilometer road climbs the slope of the ...