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TRAINS

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Apr 14, 2014
What's one thing you would change about the Tokyo subway system?
Tokyoites pick out one way to make the capital's usually reliable subway system just that little bit better.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2014
'Scent alerts' for train stations set to cue JR's distracted commuters
When all 30 stations on Tokyo's Yamanote Line have unique 'scent alerts' functioning much like the current platform melodies, your nose will tell you where to get off.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2014
Railway agency officials face bid rigging charges
Prosecutors plan to build a case against senior officials of a government-backed railway construction agency over alleged bid rigging in connection with projects for the Hokuriku bullet train line, sources said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Train buff in Hokkaido builds his own museum
An architect in Otofuke, Hokkaido, has transformed part of his household into a railway museum.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2014
Model train mag reaches milestone
A monthly magazine for model railroad fans launched shortly after the end of World War II issued its 800th edition in January.
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2014
Hokuriku rail line bid-rigging spurs raids
Investigators on Tuesday raided the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency as well as two private firms over alleged bid-rigging for snow-melting equipment on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, investigative sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2014
Planes, trains full as return rush clogs transport
Returning travelers swamp airports, highways and train stations as the New Year's holidays begin to wind down.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Dec 20, 2013
To tap tourist yen, think train-packing, plastic grub and sumo
I think it is time for some up-to-date experiences — ones that the waves of tourists due to flood Japan up through the 2020 Olympics might savor more than those that revolve around traditional Japanese culture.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 16, 2013
Lessons in life
Young man #1: Old men really don't like being overtaken in the pool.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2013
Opponents derail Obama’s dream of high-speed trains, and jobs
The gleaming red-and-white trains sit motionless in a cavernous warehouse in Century City, an industrial neighborhood that cranked out 100 million car and truck frames in its heyday. The seats are draped in plastic; an electronic screen on one reads, "Quiet Car. 11:10 a.m. 000 MPH."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2013
Luxury train designer went to bat for Kyushu
Yoshio Naka, 38, has never been an avid fan of trains, but he is the man behind the recent dazzling debut of Kyushu Railway Co.'s Seven Stars in Kyushu cruise and sleeper train.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2013
JR Kyushu raising rate for Seven Stars train
Kyushu Railway Co. will raise the price of the most expensive package for its Seven Stars luxury train service to ¥770,000 per person for double-occupancy, an increase of about ¥200,000, starting with July 2014 departures, a JR Kyushu official said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 27, 2013
Maglev veteran keeps looking toward the future
The route for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagoya has been announced, and the country's first magnetically levitated train is moving toward the start of operations in 2027.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2013
Bad track upkeep eyed in Hokkaido derailment: JR
Hokkaido Railway says slow track repairs may have caused last week's cargo train derailment and finds 97 more cases of poor maintenance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2013
JR Kyushu shows off new luxury train
Kyushu Railway Co. on Friday unveiled the ¥3 billion Seven Star luxury sleeper train ahead of its inaugural run on Oct. 15.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 13, 2013
Entertainingly angry study of Italy's trains
Thirty years ago, Tim Parks moved from London to Italy. As a writer until recently mired in the midlist, he admitted that he didn't want to watch "the rise of the Amises and McEwans" in more detail than strictly necessary. He has written 15 novels, but his breakthrough came with a nonfiction work, "Teach Us To Sit Still," in which he bemoaned, among other stress-making bedevilments, his compulsion to narrate. But that compulsion produced voluminous notes chronicling his travails on Italian railways, so "Italian Ways" takes its place among Parks' warts-and-all snapshots of the country.
EDITORIALS
Jun 23, 2013
All aboard the luxury train
With Japan's train system the envy of the world, three railway companies will offer luxury trains to cruise Japan in a style reminiscent of the Gilded Age.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2013
320-kph Hayabusa matches world speed record
Hayabusa bullet trains begin running Saturday at a new top speed of 320 kph on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, equalling France's TGV as the world's fastest train in operation.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2013
America can't afford the Amtrak train fantasy
The fact that a program as wasteful of taxpayers' money as Amtrak has so many defenders is more evidence why the U.S. budget debates are stuck.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 4, 2012
Today's J-blip: Tokyo train gets the Olympic treatment
Tokyo riders get the gold in commuting with Asics' train-jacking ad campaign.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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