Smoking had already been banned on the Nagano (Hokuriku), Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines after the Health Promotion Law, which requires companies to prevent secondhand smoking ...

JR Tokai, which operates Tokaido Shinkansen Line services ... including one in Nagano Prefecture in 2017 and another in Nakatsugawa in 2019. But the Oct. 27 accident was the first fatal one ...

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Loves this track and trip and can salute from a good barrier tonight ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen, which links the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, has been running in tandem with Japan’s economic and social development ever since it began operating ...

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...

The first of many rides on the shinkansen bullet train then whisks you into mountainous central Japan ... The Japanese style accommodation in Takayama, as well as the temple lodging in Nagano have ...

Rakugo Scholar Matthew Shores to Talk at Waseda University in Japanese about His Research; First in the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation Lecture Series Matthew Shores, an American scholar of rakugo ...