India is working hard to improve its infrastructure, especially in rail and road projects, with investments worth thousands of crores. One of the biggest projects is the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train, ...

Japan will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, an event which will see the country’s capital, Tokio, use as many existing competition venues as possible. That means a lot of people will be attending and ...

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 ...

There are two things that will never get old in Japan. Hello Kitty – Sanrio’s adorable mouthless character – and bullet trains. And now they’re coming together. Japan’s Shinkansen train operator, West ...

Much like an airliner's de-icing protocols, the water jets hosing down bullet trains are intended to promote safety in snowy ...

E5 series Shinkansen bullet trains are part of a new generation Japanese high speed train (also called Hayabusa) which was put into commercial operation in March 2011. The E5 series Shinkansen is a ...

TOKYO — It was, retired Japanese railway engineer Fumihiro Araki recalls, "like flying in the sky." Zipping cross-country in a super-high-speed train has become commonplace in many countries these ...

On top of its lineage to The Bullet Train, Higuchi’s film will have extra special resonance for Japanese audiences, as well as anyone who has visited Japan, with the central importance the Shinkansen ...