Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train ... apologized when a train left 25 seconds early. The precision of the operation was clear when NPR was invited into the driver’s cab during a Shinkansen ...

It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers ...

Stepping onto a Japanese ... the tracks as the train rocketed past 170mph was like that moment in a movie when a spaceship goes into warp drive – the world seemed to stretch around you. Despite the ...