A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Miyazaki Prefecture Monday evening in Japan, initially setting off a ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

Ballooning costs, inconvenient access and a local feud are clouding the future of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line’s Nishi-Kyushu route that will partially open on Sept. 23. The 66-kilometer course ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or damage, and ...

Japan Railways group companies are calling on people to keep up with the latest information, saying Shinkansen bullet train services could be affected through Monday. The operator of the Kyushu ...

The operator of the Kyushu Shinkansen says services will be suspended between Kumamoto Station and Kagoshima-chuo Station from around 8 p.m. Wednesday. It will also suspend services on Thursday.

Shinkansen bullet trains in the central city ... The same warning was issued in September 2022 as Typhoon Nanmadol approached Kyushu - the first such warning declared for a region other than ...

SHIMAMURA Takuya (Kyushu University) / MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) We illuminate the causal relationship between high-speed railway (HSR) expansions and economic development, focusing on ...