The U.S.'s rail system lags far behind other countries when it comes to both scale and speed, but strides are being made ...

JR Central's financial health is sound. Credit metrics deteriorated sharply during the pandemic but are improving as earnings recover and because of a very conservative dividend payout ratio. Net debt ...

JR West owns and is responsible for the maintenance of a large railway network comprising nearly 5,000 kilometers of track. About 60% of the firm's planned capital expenditure for the next few years ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru Strait near the southern tip of Hokkaido. In Part 3 of my travelogue, I’ll ...

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, ...

With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

West Japan Railway Company (JP:9021) has released an update. West Japan Railway Company reported a rise in revenue and income for the first ...

With two projects underway, business, labor and government leaders see the dawn of a new industry that “could be a very ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail ...

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Tokyo police have arrested two suspects for allegedly using other people's credit card data to purchase Shinkansen bullet train tickets worth about 700,000 yen, or around 4,500 dollars. Police ...