Japan has scrapped plans to build a light railway part-way up Mount Fuji and is instead considering a Chinese-made cross between a bus and a tram, a local governor said Monday. The number of ...

still rattles along the streets of this iconic city in western Japan. Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.’s Type 650 tram was near Chuden-mae station when the bomb detonated on Aug. 6, 1945.

Old school meets high-tech in the Smooth Win Mover (SWIMO), a battery-powered streetcar set for deployment in Japan in 2007. Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is developing the SWIMO and the nickel ...

HIROSHIMA--Tetsuko Shakuda was a frightened 14-year-old when she resumed her work as a conductor on a tram line in the devastated ... got closer to mainland Japan, food was scarce, and Shakuda ...