An overheating Apple iPod music player forced delays to a busy Tokyo commuter train Reuters reports. Passengers complained of a strong burning smell. The train came to a halt for eight minutes around 8:20 a.m. in western Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, 10.5 miles from the capital’s centre, while officials investigated the cause of the smell. ”When a member of staff went to investigate inside the train, a passenger came over showing him that the iPod she was listening to had burst apart,” a spokesman for Tokyu Corp, a major private railway operator in Tokyo, said. The model of the overheating iPod is not known at this time. No injuries reported.
Apple has come under scrutiny in Japan since the trade ministry last month ordered it to improve safety warnings following cases of overheating in its first generation iPod nano music players. Under pressure from the Japanese government, Apple decided to replace first generation iPod nano players in Japan. Apple has described the incidents as very rare, blaming the problem on a single battery supplier which it has declined to identify.
