In the Japanese capital, Tokyo, streets and subways were submerged ... overwhelmed the city's drainage systems. The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed train service and operations at Haneda Airport were ...

In the Japanese capital, Tokyo, streets and subways were submerged ... overwhelmed the city's drainage systems. The Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed train service and operations at Haneda Airport ...

This was invaluable when we took the Tokyo Shinkansen to busy Nagoya station ... bank to charge mobile phones as apps such as Google Maps and Translate really drain battery power.

East Japan Railway (JR East) will introduce the Shinkansen bullet trains by mid 2030s File photo: This picture shows high-speed bullet trains, or shinkansens, parked at Tokyo station in Tokyo.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tohoku Shinkansen Line's Hayabusa-Komachi No. 6 bullet train bound for Tokyo -- the Hayabusa portion (top left) and the Komachi portion (bottom) -- ...

TOKYO – Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country’s demographic crisis.

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said it will suspend operations on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line on Aug. 16 between Nagoya and Tokyo ... the latest forecast map at the JMA website.

The following year, the company hopes to trial driverless trains on a short stretch of out-of-service track before rolling them out between Tokyo and Niigata on the Joetsu Shinkansen line in the ...

Approaching Typhoon No. 10 is likely to cause severe disruptions to Shinkansen services when it ... which lie more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. The typhoon formed ...

Japan's iconic Shinkansen high-speed trains could be crossing ... between the capital Tokyo and Niigata, a port city on Honshu, the country's main island. The firm said in a statement: "By ...