Nakamura Miku left big city life to volunteer in the relief efforts following the Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, and the ...

Suspended coupled bullet train services in northeastern Japan will gradually resume later this week, the operator said ...

East Japan Railway, or JR East, said Tuesday that it will resume from Friday operating coupled trains on the Tohoku ...

East Japan Railway has test-run a coupled Tohoku Shinkansen train prior to resuming normal service this weekend.

Suspended coupled bullet train services in northeastern Japan resumed Friday, the operator said, after safety checks were ...

A similar incident occurred in Miyagi Prefecture last September on the Tohoku Shinkansen line. JR East said that detachment was caused by a switch problem due to metal shavings.

In September, a bullet train service made an emergency stop after two linked trains uncoupled. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO -- Families of people killed in the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami visited beaches and memorial cenotaphs in ...

Attending a memorial service hosted by Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Daiichi nuclear ... The earthquake and the ...

According to JR East, the northbound Hayabusa-Komachi No. 21 train out of Tokyo Station came to an emergency stop when the 10 ...