In recent years, there’s been a trend in anime and light novels towards exhaustively comprehensive titles that meander through a dozen words or more to spell out their premise. So it’s really ...

Japan’s bullet train operators are launching high-speed cargo services in a sign of how labour shortages and dwindling passenger numbers are reshaping the economy. JR East, which runs three high-speed ...

In an age of perpetual crisis, disaster movies have started to feel like a form of escapism. Sure, they depict things going horribly wrong, but they also offer hope that people might manage to ...

The world of bullet trains is fascinating, blending high-speed travel with cutting-edge technology. These marvels of engineering have revolutionized the way we think about distance and time, and they ...

OSAKA -- Miscommunication between maintenance staff and train controllers let potentially disastrous damage to one of Japan's shinkansen bullet trains go unaddressed for about three hours, despite an ...