Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling network of trains, subways, and buses, often considered the best in the ...

The Yamagata Shinkansen Line's Tsubasa bullet train, traveling from Yamagata Station to Tokyo Station, collided with a fallen ...

TOKYO: A man stabbed three people at a train station in central Japan on Wednesday (Jan 23) before fleeing the scene, leaving ...

At his first hearing at the Tokyo District Court ... A passenger pushed an emergency button in a JR Yamanote Line train approaching Shinjuku Station on Sunday after a man was seen carrying ...

A 36-year-old man arrested for a stabbing spree on a Tokyo commuter train that left 10 passengers injured told police he had hoped to kill as many people as possible. The suspect, Yusuke Tsushima ...

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At least 10 people were injured when a man attacked passengers with a knife on a Tokyo commuter train A man attacked fellow passengers with a knife on a Tokyo commuter train late on Friday ...

Central Japan Railway Co. plans to test a pet-friendly car on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's busiest bullet train line ...

He was waiting in line for a taxi at Ome Station, about 50 kilometers west of Tokyo Station, after falling asleep on a train and missing his stop. JR East on Oct. 21 officially announced that the ...

One person died and two others were injured in a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train station in Nagano in central ...

The operator of Tokyo's busy Yamanote loop line and ... Among others in the JR group, Hokkaido Railway Co. will increase its starting fare by 10 yen to 210 yen and Kyushu Railway Co.