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.

A passenger on the train, which was bound for Nagoya on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, found the suspicious object on a seat at around 0:30 p.m. and reported it to a conductor. The train stopped at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Railways and airlines say congestion on Shinkansen bullet trains and flights will also reach its peak on Tuesday.

On April 12, JR West launched the “One Piece Shinkansen,” a collaboration with the popular manga and anime series, running on the San’yō Shinkansen line between Shin-Osaka and Hakata.