After nearly a decade of negotiations, the Shizuoka prefectural government and Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) have reached an agreement regarding environmental issues in a construction area for ...

Ukraine is eagerly looking to Japan’s super-safe Shinkansen system to bolster the war-torn nation’s recovery from the devastation of the Russian invasion. This provides a ripe opportunity for Japan to ...

Newer stations on Shinkansen lines across Japan are speeding to the head of the line in popularity among passengers for a variety of reasons, according to a recent survey. Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa ...

To ask that you either never travel in Japan or you are taken the piss out of my post. It the logistic that the Japanese employ like green cars and reserved cars, car number mark on the platform where ...

East Japan Railway (JR East) started operating a freight-only shinkansen bullet train Monday, transporting goods from Morioka ...

Having in mind that this evolutionary process has been complicated by the privatization of the Japanese railways we will introduce the trains according to lines instead of the order by which they ...

After 50 years, there’s still something futuristic about the shinkansen, as the completion last week of the Hokuriku shinkansen line linking Tokyo and Kanazawa reminds us. Japan’s are no longer the ...

Regarding Daniel Kliman's Nov. 10 article, "U.S.-Japan collaboration on high-speed rail": I don't see how promoting the Japanese shinkansen really has a lot to do with the issue of the unbalanced ...

In the more than 60 years since the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s high-speed train service has expanded into a broad network of routes that stretches across the ...