Railway operators Tokyu Corp. and Izukyu Corp. on Friday began operating a luxury train service between Yokohama and the south of the Izu Peninsula — a popular hot-spring resort area. The inaugural Royal Express train left Yokohama Station for Shimoda, near the southern tip of ...
Japanese authorities have obtained a data recording device from a containership to help determine why it collided with a U.S. destroyer, killing seven American sailors. Transport safety officials said Thursday that they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's black box, from the ...
Active faults stretching over 100 km are identified near the coast of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, and could generate a major quake affecting areas from Tokyo to Nagoya.
