Thanks for this explanation. I caught this segment of the Fuji-TV News (the only one shown locally) but couldn't figure out the particulars without subtitles.
No problem. There's something about the nature of these revelations that kind of rivets the attention, you know? Because I have a real uncharitable streak, I try to make a good-faith effort to think of possible extenuating circumstances when things like this come up. In this case, I can't quite swing it, though. Even if those drivers were on the car or two that stayed on the tracks, surely they wondered where the front half of the train had disappeared to before going off to their regularly-scheduled jobs?