But inside its train station awaits one of Japan’s most curious treasures. A spectacle to get the hearts of rail fans racing, it happens 17 times a day, and there is always a crowd waiting at ...

TOKYO -- Capital spending by Japan's private rail operators looks on track for another all-time high, with much of the money going toward comfortable new trains in a bid to boost ridership as ...

Japan's latest train crash will send shock waves through a country which prides itself on the efficiency and safety of its rail industry. One Japanese station manager committed suicide a few years ago ...

2005-04-26 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo-- An obsession with punctuality may have led to Japan's deadliest rail crash in four decades, a morning rush-hour derailment Monday that killed at least 73 people ...

Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the Tokyo Olympics, with the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen. This line connected the capital city with Osaka, covering 320 miles and ...

Despite its limited scale, this first HSR first project in South Asia augurs well for Japan’s rail diplomacy. In the short term, this deal offsets Japan’s previous failure in Indonesia ...

TOKYO -- As Japan's rail companies take small steps to help the logistics industry soften an expected labor crunch and burn less fossil fuel, it is becoming clear that trains face big challenges ...

A section of track along JR East's Chuo Line between Hino and Toyoda stations that has a superconducting electric cable laid out, from below center to the background, is seen in the Tokyo suburb ...

TOKYO/WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - The governments of the United States and Japan signalled support for a plan to build the first high-speed rail in the U.S. using Japanese bullet trains after ...