A shinkansen made an emergency stop Sunday after a tablet computer apparently owned by a passenger caught fire while the train was en route to Tokyo Station, police and railway officials said. The incident aboard the Nozomi 234 super express took place at around 5:30 ...
Japan's government and its rail companies lobbied the U.S. for years to sell their bullet-train technology and found little success. Finally, there's an international buyer: India. The South Asian country is to become the first to import the iconic shinkansen technology after Japan's near-neighbor Taiwan, ...
Central Japan Railway Co. on Saturday unveiled a new robot tasked with the job of using its multiple brush-tipped arms to prepare the distinctively shaped nose of the shinkansen for repainting. The robot — used to prepare the outer surface of the cockpit area before ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting India between Sept. 12 and 14, it has been learned. Abe is expected to hold a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend a ceremony related to India's high-speed railway project, which uses Japan's shinkansen technology, ...
Shinkansen services resumed normal operations Thursday morning following wide disruptions due to a Wednesday power outage that affected at least 50,000 passengers, including 1,500 people who stayed in train cars overnight. According to JR Tokai and JR West, the outage, which began at around 7:55 ...
A man jumped onto bullet-train tracks and was fatally hit in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, police said. The Hayabusa No. 35 on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line struck the man as it entered Hachinohe Station at around 11:10 p.m. Sunday, East Japan Railway Co. said. The man, who ...
The New Year's travel exodus peaked Thursday as people jammed airports and train stations for destinations in Japan and abroad. On Thursday alone, around 50,000 people were expected to leave the country from Narita airport, 33,400 from Kansai airport in Osaka, and some 8,800 from ...
100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1916 Steamer goes missing en route to Calcutta It is feared that the steamer Kaiho Maru, which left Kobe on Nov. 3 for Calcutta with a cargo of 3,500 tons consisting mainly of matches and cotton goods, has met with disaster, ...
India’s prime minister visited a bullet train plant in Kobe on Saturday after Japan and India agreed to cooperate on a high-speed railway project in the South Asian country.
Among the three route options for an extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line to Osaka from Tsuruga, one running via Maizuru and Kyoto would be least viable, a government report has shown. In the report, submitted Friday to the ruling coalition's project team to promote ...
A bullet train was forced to make an emergency stop Monday after a snake was found slithering between the seats. A passenger spotted the 30-cm serpent poking between a gap in the seats, prompting the train, which was traveling between Tokyo and Hiroshima, to stop ...
Japan intensified its shinkansen sales pitch in Singapore on Friday, hoping to acquire an edge in its bid for the Malaysia-Singapore high speed rail project. Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii discussed the bullet train system at a meeting with Singapore Senior Minister ...
