Our reporter Masanuki Sunakoma does a lot of travel for work, zipping around the country on Japan’s network of shinkansen bullet trains, but one recent rail ride turned out to be like none he’s ever ...

A passenger on a Kodama train, which was bound for Nagoya on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, found the suspicious object on a ...

JR Central's financial health is sound. Credit metrics deteriorated sharply during the pandemic but have improved as earnings recovered and because of a very conservative dividend payout ratio. Net ...

TOKYO >> East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, announced in April that it plans to test a system that will use facial recognition technology to allow passengers to move freely through ticket gates ...

Over the longer term, the outlook for the core "mobility" business is subdued by an aging and shrinking population. In response, management is investing to increase "life design" revenue to about 40% ...