Train service disruptions involving animals entering the tracks in Japan have roughly tripled over the past decade and surged ...

Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global ...

One traveler shared a viral video showcasing his first-class experience riding on the Shinkansen, the fastest bullet train in ...

The campaign follows a survey indicating that over 60 per cent of Japanese train users have been ‘annoyed’ by the behaviour ...

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 ...

Requires minimal maintenance, which is handy amid worker shortages.

The number of people using the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka during the country's Golden Week holidays was up 5 percent from a year earlier amid booming inbound tourism, the ...

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% ...

People heading for hometowns and holiday destinations during the ongoing spring holiday period are causing traffic jams ...

Shareholder distributions are appropriate. JR East has a long-term dividend payout ratio of 30% and plans to return a further 10% to shareholders via share buybacks in the medium term. While ...

One of Japan’s busiest bullet train lines was brought to a standstill after a snake became entangled in a power line, ...