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 ...

Staff members work in the snow near the Meguro Station in Tokyo, Japan, March 19, 2025. Affected by cold air, Tokyo ushered in heavy snow on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jia Haocheng) A pedestrian walks in the ...

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 ...

The Kumamoto City Tram, which runs on the streets of Kumamoto ... The lights are turned on from 5 p.m. to around 10 p.m. Japanese original Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei ...

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 ...

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.