JR Kyushu sets September 18 restart for quake-hit Shinkansen line
Kyushu Railway expects to reopen the Kumamoto to Shin-Minamata Shinkansen section on September 18 and the Kagoshima Main Line's Uto-Yatsushiro stretch by mid-October, but both dates could slip with aftershocks and the earthquake's cost to earnings is still being tallied.