Japan’s bullet train operators are launching high-speed cargo services in a sign of how labour shortages and dwindling passenger numbers are reshaping the economy. JR East, which runs three high-speed ...

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Japan's biggest railway company raised its fares by an average 7.1 percent on Saturday. It is East Japan Railway's first ...

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It still isn’t clear how the Japanese earthquake will affect global commerce, but North American grain railroads are closely monitoring the situation. The U.S. Grains Council received news that the ...

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of ...