It’s no secret that Japan has a lot of earthquakes. The country records more seismic activity than anywhere else in the world ...

Happy 60 th birthday to high-speed rail. It was on October 1 st in 1964 that the Shinkansen, Japan’s revolutionary super-fast train, made its debut. Known as the “bullet train” because of its ...

All passengers were evacuated from the Tokyo-bound train. At JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, a Tokaido Shinkansen Line train was stopped due to the release of bear repellent spray onboard ...

There's also a reverence for Japanese culture and Japan itself that the Barcelona-based indie studio Undercoders wants to faithfully capture, given that the game will also have you driving your trains ...

TOKYO — It may soon become more expensive to ride one of Japan’s famously crowded trains thanks to measures recently approved by lawmakers to combat the side effects of “over-tourism.” Visitors have ...

Japan is preparing to add four new fields to its “specified skilled worker” visa to address labor shortages in especially hard-hit industries, government sources said.

Turtles near Japan’s Nara Prefecture now have safe passage across the local train tracks. Despite being small and adorable, the little turtles sometimes get caught in the switch rail mechanism—which ...