Japan Railways Group has a number of special rail passes to make train travel cheaper, easier, and by extension, more fun, but one of the most popular, the Seishun 18 Ticket, underwent a number of ...

The Metropolitan Police Department received an emergency call around 11 p.m. about a woman brandishing a knife and injuring people on the train. She was arrested at JR Akihabara Station in Tokyo ...

The money-losing sections for JR East totaled about 2,200 km, or about 35 percent of all its local train lines ... commuter volume around the greater Tokyo metropolitan area and earnings from ...

TOKYO - The Tohoku Shinkansen line stopped to conduct a train inspection between Ueno and Omiya Stations on March 6 morning after the train cars decoupled and came to a halt, according to JR East.