RICE is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval- shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

In a historic step towards transforming India’s railway infrastructure, the first-ever Shinkansen bullet trains — part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) project — have entered ...

A Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this file photo. (Mainichi) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- The number of people using the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) suspended operations of coupled Shinkansen following a decoupling mishap on March 6 in Tokyo, inconveniencing passengers on those routes and adding runs to ...

Train buffs are in a frenzy over the prospect of owning a food cart that once graced the aisles of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. And for a paltry 100,000 yen ($666) each. Shinkansen operator ...

Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global non-English films list. By Abid Rahman, Patrick Brzeski Shinji Higuchi’s ...

Passenger numbers for its busiest route rose 5 per cent during the recent Golden Week, from a year ago. But the Shinkansen is under growing pressure to reinvent itself. CNA's Michiyo Ishida has more.

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Ryan Blaney vividly remembers hitting the halfway mark of his first Coca-Cola 600 — and wondering how he’d ever finish. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Blaney recalled with a laugh ...