The technical term for the event is “coupling,” but it’s known colloquially as the “Shinkansen kiss.” For Japanese rail fans, ...

Japanese spend a lot of time thinking about manners, and spend a lot of time riding trains too. So that means, of course, that people in Japan also spend a lot of time thinking about manners related ...

TOKYO - Shinkansen bullet train services in north-eastern Japan resumed on March 26 after a more than eight-hour stoppage ...

Life in Tokyo, whether business or pleasure, revolves around trains and rail stations. Experts say that's no accident.

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 27 inaugurated a segment of Takanawa Gateway City, a mixed-use development ...

JAPAN is very interested in doing a feasibility study on a high-speed rail project from Metro Manila to Bicol, according to ...

East Japan Railway Co. announced on March 11 ... Multiple-unit operations will resume starting with Tokyo-bound trains on March 14, connecting with the Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines, with ...

Keiichi Kagayama, a corporate officer at Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) in charge of high-speed rail projects outside Japan, noted in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun that the bullet ...