The company’s executive vice president and chief safety officer was summoned over recent issues such as disruptions on the ...

TOKYO -- A power outage hit JR Ueno Station on the morning of Jan. 30, halting rapid and local services on sections of the JR ...

Locals, train staff, rail fans and others welcomed the restoration of service on March 14 to part of the JR Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, closed since the nuclear disaster ...

The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has awarded a contract to Thales to design a communications-based train control system (CBTC) for Tokyo’s 30km-long Joban suburban line. The new CBTC system ...

In rail-reliant Japan, trains come and go with such frequency that most stations don’t bother to have an actual employee individually announce each arrival and departure. Instead, there’s usually a ...

MONTREAL and TORONTO—Thales Canada has won a contract from East Japan Railway to design the country’s first control signalling system for Tokyo’s Joban rail line. The value of the contract was not ...

Tokyo, Jan. 30 (Jiji Press)--Train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line were partially suspended for about seven hours Friday after an overhead power line snapped at Tokyo's Ueno ...

Tokyo, Jan. 30 (Jiji Press)--Train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s Joban Line were partially suspended for about seven hours Friday after an overhead power line snapped at Tokyo's Ueno ...