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Passengers were seen being helped from an East Japan Railway (JR East) Keihin-Tohoku line train stranded between stations and ...

Every year when the Common Test for University Admissions approaches in Japan, there emerge online a spate of posts fueling ...

A railway power outage in Tokyo disrupted the morning commute for roughly 673,000 passengers Friday as two main lines ...

Please, someone, bring high-speed rail to the States so we can have cats run our stations. Imagine how much better our lives ...

In the northerly prefecture of Aomori, locals have a unique obsession with apples, which can be experienced in the region’s ...

Step into any public restroom stall in Japan and you’re likely to be enveloped in a soundscape. No, not that kind. It’s the babble of running water, perhaps peppered with cheerful tweets and birdsong, ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Kanematsu will deliver ground-based training systems, including virtual reality flight simulators, to Japan's Air Self-Defense Force together with trainer aircraft as ...

Reporters stood by waiting to catch a glimpse of Japan's fast high-speed train on the new Chuo Shinkansen rail line, and if any of them blinked, they missed it. Those who stayed focused on the track ...

West Japan Railway, or JR West, showed to the press Wednesday its recently completed facility to preserve a train that crashed in April 2005, killing 106 passengers and the train’s driver. JR West has ...

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