SHIZUOKA--Railway officials deemed a self-driving Shinkansen test as successful here, in a step toward having automated high-speed bullet trains debut in Japan in 2028. The driver pressed a button in ...

Japanese trains operate with average annual delays of approximately 18 seconds — measured to that precision because Japanese rail operators consider anything more than 1 minute late as a meaningful ...

Explain to me why there wasn't a co-driver? I assume that it's a long haul journey so if the primary driver fell ill, why did he not have a backup? Sudden onsets of illnesses can be debilitating and ...

East Japan Railway (JR East) on Tuesday unveiled plans to introduce driverless bullet trains by the mid-2030s in an effort to make operations more efficient and sustainable. The major railway company ...

Give someone the prompt “The shinkansen is _____”, and they’re almost certain to complete it with “fast.” Sure, theoretically “awesome,” “convenient,” and “a surprisingly tasty source of ice cream” ...

The Tokyo High Court ruled that the Tokaido Shinkansen Line is such an integral part of the nation's infrastructure that the company operator can change the requested vacation dates of its drivers and ...

A driver of a Shinkansen bullet train left the cockpit to use the bathroom while the train was running at 150km/h (93mph) with some 160 passengers on board in central Japan, Central Japan Railway Co.