Councilmembers Gay Donnell Willis and Adam Bazaldua talked economic development and high-speed rail potential aboard a ...

JR Central's financial health is sound. Credit metrics deteriorated sharply during the pandemic but are improving as earnings recover and because of a very conservative dividend payout ratio. Net debt ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

Shareholder distributions are appropriate. JR East has a long-term dividend payout ratio of 30% and plans to return a further 10% to shareholders via share buybacks in the medium term. While ...

Three workers died after a temporary structure fell at the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train construction site. Ex gratia ...

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru Strait near the southern tip of Hokkaido. In Part 3 of my travelogue, I’ll ...

Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, ...

Torrential rains hit western Japan, including the Kyushu, Chugoku, and Kansai regions, on Saturday, November 2, triggering ...

With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

West Japan Railway Company (JP:9021) has released an update. West Japan Railway Company reported a rise in revenue and income for the first ...

With two projects underway, business, labor and government leaders see the dawn of a new industry that “could be a very ...

The fast-rail train network, locally known as Shinkansen, marked its 60th birthday this month. Travellers on trains between Tokyo and Japan's southern island of Kyushu might hear a distinctly ...