Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six ...

With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

The Shinkansen network expansion, involving 500 kilometers of new tracks, relies on epoxy resins for critical structural components to withstand seismic activity. Epoxy's role extends to the ...

Heavy rain briefly halted all shinkansen bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo on Saturday ...

Councilmembers Gay Donnell Willis and Adam Bazaldua talked economic development and high-speed rail potential aboard a ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

When the first line of the Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1960, people working in the global rail industry raised a collective cry of surprise. The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, ...

Passengers on the Nozomi Shinkansen not wanting to sit next to anyone or hoping to get more space to spread out need not worry much longer. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) will offer a ...