With less than 500 miles of high-speed rail laid, the United states is far behind the leaders in the field, who have tens of ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

Kamiyonai Station in Morioka attracts a steady stream of visitors for its local lacquerware works and access to a popular ...

When Jigyan Kumar Thapa, a Nepalese man living in Kanagawa Prefecture, was riding a train, a stranger told him, ...