Graffiti attack forces suspension of bullet train service

With all the extra anti-terror security precautions accompanying the G8 summit, you’d think that JR might have been able to prevent an intruder from entering their storage area at night and vandalizing trains:
According to railway officials, graffiti reading “Hack” in English was found on the side of a carriage of a Joetsu Shinkansen train parked at a train depot of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) in Tokyo’s Kita-ku at around 5 a.m. on Tuesday.
A driver who was inspecting trains at the depot found the graffiti and reported the incident to Takinogawa Police Station.
JR East suspended a train service on the Joetsu Shinkansen Line as it tried to erase the graffiti on the train that was to be used on the line, affecting about 500 passengers.
