Like many other religions, Japan’s native belief system, Shinto, is in decline. You wouldn’t know it by walking around Meiji Jingu Shrine in Tokyo. Every day th ...

Japan celebrated Halloween early with a unique event by transforming a bullet train into a zombie apocalypse experience.

Event organiser Kenta Iwana of the group Kowagarasetai, which translates to the “scare squad”, intended to “depict the ...

A Japanese company is introducing around 1,200 stab-proof, lightweight umbrellas on 600 trains in the Kansai region. These ...

The trading debut of Tokyo Metro Co., which runs one of the world’s largest subway systems, is set to support the bull case ...

Sleep tracking, “snow showers” and underwater “soundscapes” are among the offerings at resorts that also happen to be in ...

Every day six and a half million people ride Tokyo Metro's nine lines, part of a dizzyingly complex transport network serving the Japanese megacity and its sprawling suburbs.

ADAM BEARNE, BYLINE: Japan is often described as the country of the future - part of that, sleek trains with pointed noses that hit speeds close to 200 miles an hour. But the technology, known as the ...

Right on schedule, the sleek white train with a blue streak and a bullet-shaped head pierced the late-morning mist and ...

Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project ...

Aboard a chartered car of the shinkansen -- the Japanese word for bullet train -- around 40 thrill-seekers screamed in terror ...

Now that a long-rumored high-speed rail project seems to be finally getting off the ground in Texas, another one is already ...