Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka are likely to operate at a slower speed than usual on ...

Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how Japan’s Bullet Train project overcame skeptics and became a global icon. We’ll explore its ...

China recently unveiled a new bullet train prototype with a test speed of 280 mph that is poised to break records and set new ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Get the latest details on a conflict heating up between backers of the high-speed rail project and a powerful Dallas real ...

A total of 328 runs were halted on the bullet train line, which connects Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations, as a collision of two rail maintenance vehicles rendered the section of track between Nagoya ...

Brits waiting on chilly, wet railway platforms in the middle of winter for another late arrival may wish the UK could be more like Japan. With its amazing Shinkansen line seeing trains hurtling ...

When Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu was designing the new 500-series Shinkansen bullet train in the 1990s, he was looking for ways to reduce the explosive boom made by the train when it rocketed ...