A portable phone charger apparently caught fire inside a college student's backpack Monday while he was riding Tokyo's busy Yamanote Line, police said. Smoke started coming out of the backpack when the train was traveling from Tokyo Station to Kanda Station at around 1:10 p.m. The ...
100 YEARS AGO SUNDAY, AUG. 5, 1917 A message from Urawa states that one Miyo Sekine, a woman of 49 years, living at Hirakata-mura, Kita-Adachigori, Saitama Prefecture, committed suicide by throwing herself into a well in her neighborhood on Thursday. The woman picked up the other ...
Work commenced Friday on a new station for the Yamanote Line, the first addition to central Tokyo's loop line since 1971. East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) and the Urban Renaissance Agency, an affiliate of the infrastructure ministry, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new ...
A woman was injured when her leg was slashed with a sharp object on a packed commuter train in Tokyo on Monday, the police said. The 40-year-old victim, who was on her way to work, suffered an injury to her left thigh that will take ...
Commuting to and from work during peak hours in Tokyo can be an utterly soul-destroying experience. With passengers jammed in like sardines in a can, the suffocating conditions on many trains can elevate stress levels and cause tempers to fray. Given the sheer number of ...
East Japan Railway Co. suspended operation of its newest train on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo after multiple malfunction warnings went off in the driver's compartment during its first day in service, company sources said. Investigators started examining the new model E235 train at a maintenance ...
A man already under arrest on suspicion of starting a small fire at an East Japan Railway Co. facility in Tokyo was served with another arrest warrant Tuesday over a fire along the tracks at a different location, police said. Izaya Noda, a 42-year-old musician, ...
A beam traversing the Yamanote Line that was removed as part of an equipment upgrade could have destabilized two cable poles blamed for Sunday's major disruption of train service in central Tokyo, East Japan Railway Co. said Monday. The beam, which was removed sometime after ...
East Japan Railway Co. is developing a new commuter train design that it wants to get rolling on Tokyo's Yamanote Line by fall 2015. JR East President Tetsuro Tomita said at a news conference Wednesday the new train will be "a next-generation model for commuter ...
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) announced in early June it will open a new station on the Yamanote loop in Tokyo in time for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. It's the first station to be added to the line in more than 40 years. Here ...
The Yamanote Line, central Tokyo's main train line, will get its 30th station before the 2020 Olympics open in the capital, an official from East Japan Railway Co. said Saturday. The first new station to be built on the loop line since 1971 will be ...
Where do you go to escape Tokyo? The Yamanote Line. I ride it all the way around once and I’m all better.
