Thailand's deputy prime minister urged Japan on Tuesday to invest in an east-west railway project. Newly appointed Somkid Jatusripitak, who is in charge of economic policy, outlined the benefits to be received by building a new East-West rail link in Thailand to more than 500 ...
Signal glitch halts Tokyo-Yokohama Tokyu trains for hours, stranding up to 360,000
As many as 360,000 commuters on their way home after work faced major train disruptions Tuesday evening on three Tokyu railway lines linking the Tokyo and Yokohama areas, with the operator suspecting trouble with a circuit breaker in the signal system. Train runs were stopped ...
Police probe possible negligence in Fukuoka shinkansen electricity failure
Police have opened an investigation into an electricity failure on a Sanyo Shinkansen Line train in Fukuoka Prefecture on Saturday caused by an aluminum plate falling off the train while it was traveling at 285 kph. Police entered a West Japan Railway Co. depot in ...
A train line in Miyagi Prefecture resumes full services more than four years after being washed away by the 2011 tsunami that devastated much of Tohoku’s coastline.
Resurgent Hitachi goes global after painful reforms
In February, Hitachi Ltd., the nation's largest maker of electric equipment and infrastructure systems, splurged on one of its priciest acquisitions. The target was the railway vehicle and signal businesses of Italy's Finmeccanica S.p.A., a deal estimated at over ¥250 billion. The move was in ...
Returning travelers flood planes, trains on Golden Week finale
Airports, trains and expressways in Japan continued to be packed on Wednesday as travelers returned from their spring getaways on the last day of the Golden Week holiday period. Reserved seats on shinkansen trains bound for Tokyo were nearly fully booked in the afternoon, according ...
Survivors and kin of the 107 people killed by the Amagasaki train derailment in Hyogo Prefecture mark the 10th anniversary of the crash.
Maglev's economics as dizzying as its speed
Japan's faded economic prowess received a boost after a maglev magnetically levitated train operated by Central Japan Railway Co. on Tuesday clocked a new world speed record of 603 kph on a test run in Yamanashi Prefecture. Whether any of this makes a shred of ...
High court upholds acquittals of ex-JR West chiefs over '05 Amagasaki derailment
The Osaka High Court has upheld a ruling that found three former heads of West Japan Railway Co. not guilty over the horrific Amagasaki train derailment in 2005, in which 106 passengers and the driver were killed and over 560 injured. The court on Friday ...
Hitachi scores first EU commuter train deal as express arrivals begin
Hitachi Ltd. announced its first contract in the European commuter-train market on the day that it commenced deliveries from an earlier $8.8 billion breakthrough order for its Intercity Express model. Hitachi will provide 70 AT200 trains to Abellio for use by the ScotRail franchise, which ...
Tokyo Station will become this week a sister station of Hsinchu Station in northwestern Taiwan. Designed by the leading Japanese architects of the time, Tokyo Station was the creation of Kingo Tatsuno and opened for service in December 1914. Hsinchu Station, designed by Tsumunaga Matsugasaki, ...
