Falling ridership is putting pressure on JR Hokkaido to close underutilized local lines even as it struggles to complete the ...

The nation’s first freight-only Shinkansen bullet train is expected to go into service between Tokyo and Morioka this autumn. East Japan Railway Co. plans to convert an E3 series Shinkansen by ...

On the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines ... On the social media platform X, a poster said that smokers have gotten a “raw deal” for helping repay the JNR debt with the special tobacco ...

East Japan Railway says it will gradually resume operations of coupled Shinkansen bullet trains from Friday, before having them return to normal schedules on Saturday. The operator has suspended ...

East Japan Railway is investigating the decoupling of two Shinkansen bullet trains running in Tokyo on Thursday morning. The linked Hayabusa and Komachi trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen line became ...

This image provided by the East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) shows the E10 series of the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet trains. TOKYO -- East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 4 announced it will ...