A new rail-based collaboration for Neon Genesis Evangelion uses another Mecha franchise to recreate a pivotal scene from an ...

A high-speed train that wasn’t designed to carry passengers is set to join the Shinkansen fleet in fiscal 2029.

Sixty years ago, a sleek white bullet train sliced through the Japanese countryside, marking a new era in travel. It wasn’t just speed that set the Shinkansen apart – it was a symbol of Japan’s ...

The Shinkansen, or “bullet train,” is a Japanese icon. The first route was the Tōkaidō Shinkansen from Tokyo to Osaka, completed ahead of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and named after the highway that ...

JR Central said it plans to trial using artificial intelligence to analyze passenger footage from security cameras on Tokaido ...

China’s CR450 bullet train has broken the world speed record for a single train, reaching 450 kph (281 mph) during ...

In a conference room in the Central Japan Railway Co.'s high-rise headquarters, Kenji Hagihara, a public relations manager, pauses in his telling of the story of Japan's high-speed rail system and ...

February 5, 2008 A new Shinkansen bullet train being built to go into service on the East Japan line will travel at up to 320 kilometers per hour (200 mph), making it the fastest rail service in Japan ...