Superconductivity, or power transmission with zero electrical resistance, may bring the Chuo Shinkansen maglev rail project ...

As rail infrastructure ages, components need to be replaced and structures such as pillars and tunnels have to be reinforced.

Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global non-English films list. By Abid Rahman, Patrick Brzeski Shinji Higuchi’s ...

Returns are enhanced by extra charges for seat reservations, first class seats, and non-Shinkansen express trains. The company's focus is on building the new magnetic levitation, or maglev ...

We expect net income to fall by a third over the next 10 years, mainly because of the dilutive Chuo Shinkansen development. Chuo returns are likely to be poor because of the huge cost of digging ...

A Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this file photo. (Mainichi) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- The number of people using the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and ...

Some trains heading for Tokyo on the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines were carrying more passengers than the seating capacity. As for air travel, around 70 percent of seats were booked on ...

Japan Railway group companies say congestion on Shinkansen bullet trains departing from Tokyo will peak on Saturday. Nozomi and other bullet trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line leaving Tokyo ...

Trending | World | A snake on a power line caused a halt to Japan's Shinkansen bullet train, stranding passengers during Golden Week, a peak travel period with millions on the move. Japan's renowned ...

The service disruption occurred on the Tokaido Shinkansen line, which also stops at Kyoto and Nagoya, and is considered the most popular and busiest route. The snake is thought to have become ...

Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage, the operator ...