The Shinkansen network has expanded steadily since ... Defeat in World War II meant that plans for the new railroad were shelved until the mid-1950s, when the Japanese economy was recovering ...

The Shinkansen network has expanded steadily since ... Defeat in World War II meant that plans for the new railroad were shelved until the mid-1950s, when the Japanese economy was recovering ...

Grand plans for the future — and we are talking decades of proposed construction here — will see the route extended still further down to Osaka. In 1964, the first shinkansen ran at up to ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a ...

With a staggering top speed of 314 mph, this groundbreaking train would turn a three-hour journey into 40 minutes, but plans ...

A commemorative ceremony was held by Central Japan Railway at Tokyo Station to send off the first train of the day.

TOKYO – A Shinkansen bullet train service was forced to make an emergency stop after its two linked trains uncoupled while it was running. The train service was travelling between Furukawa and ...

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SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A shinkansen made an emergency stop between northeastern Japan and Tokyo on Thursday after its two linked trains uncoupled, railway operator JR East said, but no injuries were ...