Experience a journey onboard Japan’s Shinkansen Train, the world’s first high-speed train, traveling 319 miles (514 km) from ...

The Tokyo High Court ruled that the Tokaido Shinkansen Line is such an integral part of the nation's infrastructure that the company operator can change the requested vacation dates of its drivers and ...

SENDAI—An apparent chemical leak on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line injured six passengers, including a child, on Oct. 9, but none of them were reported in serious condition. A call made to the 119 ...

TOKYO – Private rooms will be offered on bullet trains linking Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka from Oct 1, making a comeback to the ...

Some shinkansen bullet train services between southwestern and western Japan were temporarily suspended on Monday morning due to an incident involving a casualty, the railway operator said. The ...

A Japanese shinkansen bullet train operator has stepped up efforts to recycle retired train cars using a patented method to ...

Carrier integrates bullet train network with airfreight operations from 13 January, cutting Sendai-Singapore times from 24 to ...

In a conference room in the Central Japan Railway Co.'s high-rise headquarters, Kenji Hagihara, a public relations manager, pauses in his telling of the story of Japan's high-speed rail system and ...

Unexpected construction delays and a tight labor market have made finishing the Hokkaido Shinkansen route to Sapporo by the end of the 2030 fiscal year problematic, although officials continue to say ...

Private rooms will be offered on bullet trains linking Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka from Oct. 1, making a comeback to the Tokaido ...

After years steeped in the sacred silence of the shinkansen, a Japan Times staffer returns stateside and gets his sea legs ...