Tohoku Shinkansen services between Tokyo and Sendai were suspended in both directions from around 7:50 a.m. on April 2, inconveniencing thousands of passengers traveling for work or pleasure. Full ...

East Japan Railway Co. announced on March 11 the resumption of coupled operations for the Tohoku Shinkansen, following a ...

The new train, nicknamed Soar, will inspect the tracks and other facilities while running at a maximum speed of 320 ...

Japan’s shinkansen are all fast, which is how they earned their English-language nickname “bullet trains.” But with no numerical limit on speed, there’s always the possibility of getting from point A ...