JAPAN has ordered emergency inspections of highway tunnels after one collapsed on Sunday killing nine people.
Two people were also injured when a 360-feet long section of the tunnel's concrete ceiling panels collapsed on to cars on Sunday morning along the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi prefecture – 50 miles west of Tokyo.
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