A Hello Kitty-themed bullet train made its final run in Japan on May 17, drawing crowds of fans to JR Shin-Osaka station to ...
Japan’s Shinkansen has carried more than 10 billion passengers since 1964 without a single passenger fatality from a ...
The ever-offbeat Japanese have a propensity for theming their trains, even their shinkansen, around famous cartoon characters ...
Japan is being shaken by two derailments in two days. Tuesday, a passenger train hit a truck at a crossing in Nimori, 50 miles northeast of Tokyo, and then jumped the tracks. Police say the truck was ...