Traveling by train in Japan is one of the wonders of our modern world, whether that’s whizzing through the countryside on the Shinkansen at up to 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph), relaxing on a ...

The Japanese love their AirPods almost as much as they love their clean, punctual trains. But that combination has proven to be a really big problem for the country’s rail companies. Just over the ...

Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultra-fast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential. Magnetic levitation, or maglev, trains ...

Central Japan Railway is the company behind the country's high-speed train Shinkansen, which was the world's first commercial ...