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All aboard: Hong Kong bullet train signals high-speed integration with China
Hong Kong's controversial bullet train got off to a smooth start Sunday, as hundreds of passengers whistled north across the border at speeds of up to 200 kph (125 mph), deepening integration of the former British colony with mainland China. While the $11 billion rail ...
China tightens embrace of Hong Kong with bullet train and other giant projects
Hong Kong's first bullet train will glide out of a sleek harbor-front railway station bound for mainland China on Saturday, launching a new era of integration — and raising fears among some for the territory's cherished freedoms. Unlike other cross-border connections, the $11 billion train ...
JR Tokai sets up unit in Texas with eye on orders for the state's bullet train project
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai), has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Dallas in an effort to win orders related to a project to build a high-speed railway in Texas. JR Tokai, the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen line linking Tokyo with Osaka, ...
Liberal Democratic Party campaign: Abe and rivals home in on local concerns
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top political goal remains constitutional revision, including changing Article 9's war-renouncing clause. But for Liberal Democratic Party chapters across the country, priorities tend to be on local issues, especially securing financial assistance from Tokyo for all manner of social welfare ...
Court gives OK for psychiatric exam of suspect in deadly bullet train rampage
A court Friday granted a request by prosecutors to conduct a psychiatric examination on a man who was arrested after randomly attacking passengers with a machete on a crowded shinkansen train last month, killing one man and injuring two women. Ichiro Kojima, 22, will be ...
New facility showcasing shinkansen simulator opens at Saitama museum
Visitors to a railway museum in Saitama will get a chance to experience what it feels like to drive a shinkansen thanks to a simulator that is part of a new addition to the facility that opened Thursday. Exhibits in the new building offer hands-on ...
Minister calls for probe into fatal Kyushu shinkansen incident
The government has instructed West Japan Railway Co. to investigate why a driver of one of its bullet trains that hit and killed a man who had entered the tracks did not report hearing an abnormal sound at the time, Transport and Tourism Minister ...
India set to miss key target for Japan-backed bullet train project: sources
India is set to miss a December deadline to acquire land for a Japan-backed $17 billion (¥1.87 trillion) bullet train project following protests by fruit growers, government officials said, likely delaying one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's most ambitious projects. Modi's office is now monitoring ...
Ichiro Kojima, who was sent to prosecutors on suspicion of murder, “suddenly stood up and hacked at me without saying anything,” police quoted a woman as saying.
Central Japan Railway Co. showed a new bullet train model to the media during a test run on Tuesday. The railway operator known as JR Tokai started daytime test runs of the new N700S series Monday, having conducted test runs at nighttime starting in March. The ...
Ties seen souring as Malaysia's Mahathir abruptly axes high-speed rail link to Singapore
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday he was scrapping a project to build a high-speed railway to Singapore, in an ominous sign for the neighbors' famously fractious relationship. Mahathir, who won a surprise election victory this month against Najib Razak's long-ruling coalition, is seeking ...
West Japan Railway Co. said Friday it will begin operating a Hello Kitty-themed shinkansen on June 30. The interior and seats of the 500-series shinkansen, to be used for daily round trips between Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka Prefecture and Hakata in Fukuoka Prefecture, will feature ...
