'It's gonna be a really big problem.' ...

Typhoon No. 7 continued to move northward toward Japan on Aug. 14, threatening to lash the Ogasawara islands south of Tokyo from the evening. The strong forces of the typhoon are expected to affect ...

Amazon Japan has started using the country's iconic bullet trains to move packages between facilities across different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl ...

Passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line willing to pay more for privacy can travel in comfort and style in their own compartments starting from fall as they did decades ago. Central Japan Railway Co ...

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 ...

In Japan, finding a true hidden gem seems harder than ever. In recent years, the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka have become staples for most international tourists who visit. But the adventurous ...

Japan's bullet train system — known as Shinkansen — is the fastest in the nation and one of the fastest in the world. The Shinkansen has been in operation since 1964, and has an impeccable safety ...

There are two things that will never get old in Japan. Hello Kitty – Sanrio’s adorable mouthless character – and bullet trains. And now they’re coming together. Japan’s Shinkansen train operator, West ...

Her white-gloved, waistcoated uniform impeccable, 22-year-old Hazuki Okuno boards a bullet train replica to rehearse the strict protocols behind the smooth operation of a Japanese institution turning ...